Natasha Chisdes Biography

Natasha Chisdes has been working with and for Alvarado and Zingrone and the Parapsychology Foundation since 2005. Her conference management skills were put to good use at a Parapsychology Foundation conference in Charlottesville in 2005, and at several conferences associated with Atlantic University in 2011 and 2012. She also was involved in research projects conducted under a grant from the Bial Foundation while all three were on staff at the Division of Perceptual Studies in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavior Sciences where she was a Research and Coding Specialist. In projects for the Parapsychology she worked on page production and editing of Helix Press titles in the mid-2000s, as well as in cataloging of new books for the Eileen J. Garrett Library in Greeport, NY, both on-site and from a distance. More recently she ran the book table for the Parapsychology Foundation at the Forever Family Foundation in November of 2014, and provided library research services to professors and students from the University of Northampton in May of 2015 at the Garrett Library in Greenport.

Chisdes has a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Virginia. She conducted research with Alvarado and Zingrone on a random and web-based survey project funded by the Bial Foundation, and was a co-author on a paper and several presentations and poster sessions in on-site and online conferences. Prior to that and still, Chisdes is a core associate with Alvarado, Zingrone & Associates working in research and teaching activities, the Marketing Director for Chizfilm.com, a website that features the film reviews of her husband, Jonathan Chisdes. She has also served as a Research Assistant to Bryan J. Williams of the Psychical Research Foundation.