Natalia Luka, formerly Nataliya Nedzhvetskaya, is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Sociology studying economic sociology, organizations, and science and technology. In addition, she holds a Designated Emphasis in the Sociology of Organizations and Markets from Haas School of Business and a Certificate in Applied Data Science from the School of Information.

Using large-scale news archive datasets, her dissertation studies how workers have spoken up about technological change in U.S. workplaces from the 1960s to the present-day. She outlines the historical scale and scope of workplace protest in the U.S. before examining how workers have used their voice to both aid and impede the integration of technologies into the workplace. She examines recent protests around AI workplace technologies and determine who will be most impacted by changes in algorithmic labor and management.

In addition to her academic work, she is a founding member of the non-profit Collective Action in Tech, which hosts the largest public archive of protests in the global technology industry. Her research on the tech industry has been featured in The Guardian, WIRED, MIT Technology Review, NBC News, NPR, The LA Times, and TIME and has been funded by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, the Jain Family Institute, the Center for Technology, Society, and Policy, and the Berkeley Culture Initiative. Prior to graduate school, she worked in finance (Sanford C. Bernstein) and journalism (Bloomberg). She earned a B.A. in Social Studies from Harvard College and an M.A. in Sociology from Columbia University.