Natalie Kocab is a writer, musician, and, more recently, a passionate pro-democracy activist. Born to an American mother and a Czech father in communist Czechoslovakia, she straddled two incredibly diverse worlds while growing up in a dissident family. In conversation with Weight of the World, Natalie talks about her unique childhood, her evolution to activism, the all-too-familiar red flags of authoritarianism she sees in the U.S. today, and the importance of uniting at a grass roots level to defend democracy.