Na'Taki Osborne Jelks

Na'Taki Osborne Jelks is an American environmental scientist. She is an assistant professor of environmental and health sciences at Spelman College. She is a visiting professor of public health at Agnes Scott College. She is known for her works in environmental justice and urban sustainability. She was named a Champion of Change by the White House in 2014 for her works.
Educational career.
Jelks was born in Walnut Grove, Mississippi. Her family later moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She was given her BS from Spelman College. She received her master's of public health in environmental and occupational health from Emory University. She got her PhD from the School of Public Health at Georgia State University. Her PhD was awarded in 2016, for a thesis titled "Combined Environmental and Social Stressors in Northwest Atlanta's Proctor Creek Watershed: An Exploration of Expert Data and Local Knowledge". Jelk's doctoral advisor was . Her scholarship is about community engagement to identify environmental stressors in urban watersheds. 
Environmental justice leadership.
In 2001, Jelks co-founded the Atlanta Earth Tomorrow Program. It is a National Wildlife Federation program. It connects urban youth to nature, civic engagement and leadership development. 
She is the board chairperson for the . It is an organization that she helped found.
She is the co-chair of the Proctor Creek Stewardship Council. It is a grassroots organization. It focused on restoring the ecological health of the Proctor Creek Watershed in west Atlanta. She serves on the Boards of Directors of the Citizen Science Association. In 2018, Jelks was a member of the ’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Committee (NEJAC). She is also the manager for Community and Leadership Development Programs for the National Wildlife Federation. 
Jelks' environmental activism has been shown in . She is also shown in "The New York Times".