Natalie Gonnella-Platts

Director, Global Policy (Women's Advancement), @theBushCenter; gender equity advocate; Afghanistan & Africa; WNYer; #BillsMafia; mom, wife. Views my own.

[Natalie Gonnella-Platts @yankeebean]

...that time I got to chat w/ @nytimes about my job, incredible work of @TheBushCenter, & the women who inspire me https://t.co/HjoW7xd0gp

[Buffalo Bills @BuffaloBills]

.@JoshAllenQB crashes recess 😂

[Zahra Joya @ZahraJoya]

History made! 🇦🇫 Zakiya Ahmad becomes the first woman from Afghanistan to summit Mount Everest — the world’s highest peak. A powerful moment of courage, determination, and inspiration for generations to come.

[Tom Withers @twithersCLE]

Shame that a certain sports network would ask "Is Buffalo cursed to have the Sabres and Bills?"

Most Buffalonians feel blessed to have two major sports franchises in such a small market.

You have to give your heart to get it broken. Not many cities can match Buffalo's heart.

[Buffalo Sabres @BuffaloSabres]

GAME 7, HERE WE COME.

#LetsGoBuffalo | @SenecaBuffalo

[George W. Bush Presidential Center @TheBushCenter]

“Too often, when reflecting and advocating on global challenges, stakeholders speak in abstract. On Mother’s Day especially, we must remember that history is seen most clearly through our own families, our own ties, our own mothers,” write Elizabeth Kennedy Trudeau, the Bradford M. Freeman Managing Director of Global Policy at the Bush Institute, and Natalie Gonnella-Platts @yankeebean, Director of Global Policy at the Bush Institute.

Read how mothers around the world are waiting, but our support should not: https://t.co/ejzWPEBlrU

[Natalie Gonnella-Platts @yankeebean]

In a world facing highest levels of conflict since WWII/notable democratic backsliding, we must do better to support the moms who are giving everything to protect their kids/steward a future that reflects our highest aspirations
@TheBushCenter #MothersDay
https://t.co/snz2QE4Bv4

[ESPN @espn]

BUFFALO IS SO BACK 🗣️

THE SABRES ARE HEADED TO THE SECOND ROUND FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 19 YEARS‼️

[Natalie Gonnella-Platts @yankeebean]

LONG overdue - 4.5 yrs to be exact (ironically happening just before the World Cup too 🤔)

As @TheBushCenter examines in “Captured State,” the enablement of the Taliban’s corruption/brutality takes many forms. Global sports bodies included

Read more 👇🏼
https://t.co/lXtNCt3rdL

[Lotfullah Najafizada @LNajafizada]

FIFA changed its law and approved that Afghan female football players can represent their own country — AFGHANISTAN — in FIFA matches from now on. Amazing!

[Natalie Gonnella-Platts @yankeebean]

City of Good Neighbors

[Buffalo Sabres @BuffaloSabres]

That's how we do it in Buffalo. ❤️🤍

[George W. Bush Presidential Center @TheBushCenter]

40 years ago, on April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear disaster in human history occurred. Reactor 4 of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the then-Soviet Ukraine exploded. “For the Ukrainian people today, Chornobyl is once again an active battleground of good versus evil,” writes Igor Khrestin, Senior Advisor of Global Policy at the Bush Institute.

Learn more about how Russia tried to cover up the many lives that were lost in this global ecological catastrophe: https://t.co/lAxBE4qjQ4

[George W. Bush Presidential Center @TheBushCenter]

The Iranian regime continues to silence the Iranian people through an internet blackout, obstruction of satellite transmissions and cutting of cellular telephone communications. Despite this, the Bush Institute, using trusted interlocutors with limited communications into the country, offers some glimpses, translated into English, into daily life from ordinary Iranians in Iran. Names and locations are obscured for security reasons.

Read more about the reality of the Iranian people: https://t.co/UZYPLhgEFl

[Natalie Gonnella-Platts @yankeebean]

@SaraWahedi The # of times sanctioned & non-sanctioned (most of them) Taliban have been granted meetings abroad (including Europe) is crazy

Every instance is another inch forward in their quest for legitimacy/normalization of brutality

We've been keeping track 👇
https://t.co/fsrRfsEo9P

[Natalie Gonnella-Platts @yankeebean]

Too often, prominent commentaries exclude the PoV of those most impacted by a situation. In fact, tyrants - like the Iranian regime - bet on it, viciously silencing truth

Still brave voices persist. The world has a responsibility to listen

@TheBushCenter
https://t.co/GoZ8UwnyeQ

[Sal Capaccio 🏈 @SalSports]

14 straight years of not even making the playoffs.
Dead-last in the Eastern Conference on December 13.
Then suddenly division champions and the No. 2 seed in the conference.

Truly remarkable.

What a season.

Enjoy it, Sabres fans. ⚔️

[Buffalo Sabres @BuffaloSabres]

THE ATLANTIC IS OURS ⚔️

See you on home ice, sabrehood!

#LetsGoBuffalo | https://t.co/ZyAsCb55c4

[Natalie Gonnella-Platts @yankeebean]

Whenever folks ask me about experts to follow on all things Iran, @hdagres is always top of my list

And it was an absolute honor to interview her for @TheBushCenter on the generational struggle of the Iranian people for a free/fair future

Listen here 👇
https://t.co/RBjZzoU2Gy

[George W. Bush Presidential Center @TheBushCenter]

The Bush Institute’s Natalie Gonnella-Platts @yankeebean and William McKenzie sat with Zineb Haddaji, a journalist from the East African nation of Djibouti. Haddaji had to flee her nation in order to have the freedom to report independently. She is currently focusing on becoming a content creator in hopes of producing short-form videos to inform Djibouti citizens about events in their country and launch a newsletter that reports on the geopolitics of East Africa.

Learn more about why East African journalists have no choice but to become independent journalist: https://t.co/bXy2o0dO8x

[Buffalo Sabres @BuffaloSabres]

This thing of ours is forever, Buffalo.

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⚔️ THE BUFFALO SABRES ARE GOING TO THE STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS! ⚔️

#LetsGoBuffalo | #sabrehood