As a child growing up in Chicago, Natalya Wallin was raised on stories that most Americans never hear. Her grandparents had survived deportation from Poland to a Siberian labor camp, uprooted in the dead of night and forced into the brutality of exile. Those stories, woven into her earliest memories, weren't just history lessons. They were fuel. "I've always had this fire in the belly to do something about situations in the world that I don't think are okay," Wallin says. "It's just how I'm wired."
Today, Wallin is the founder of Vitality, a Nature-Inspired investment fund founded in 2023, aimed at catalyzing early-stage solutions that work in harmony with the natural world. The path to this moment, where science, justice, economics, and ecological restoration intersect, was anything but conventional.
