About Natalie Roy
Natalie's Bio
Natalie Roy is a 33-year resident of Arlington’s Lyon Park neighborhood. Her civic engagement has
included serving as president, vice-president of development and neighborhood conservation for
the Lyon Park civic association. She currently is Lyon Park’s membership chair and is also a
member of the Board of Governors, a group that manages the Lyon Park Community Center, a
beautiful historic facility, owned and maintained by the neighborhood.
Her community and county involvement includes everything from being a member of the Arlington
Sports Commission, serving as President of the Jefferson Middle School PTA, advocating to save
Thomas Jefferson Park, protesting a gun store in her neighborhood, to volunteering on the County’s
Complete Vaccine Committee to combat Covid and hosting an Arlington public access WERA radio
show on Arlington neighborhoods. In the 1990’s she also hosted and co-produced two public access
TV environmental shows (in Arlington and Takoma Park, MD). She coached Yorktown High School’s
girls’ varsity tennis team for 17 years, receiving an All-Met Coach of the year award by the
Washington Post, and currently serves on Arlington’s Joint Facilities Advisory Commission (JFAC).
She is also a current board member for Embracing Arlington Arts, a non-profit promoting art in the
County. The gun store protest resulted in a SLAPP lawsuit against Natalie and 66 others, which was
eventually dropped.
Prior to her real estate career, Natalie worked for over thirty years on environmental and
progressive issues. She ran national and state organizations and served on various boards,
advocating for clean water, pollution prevention, clean beaches, recycling, and gun control. She has
also worked on political campaigns for Democratic candidates, whether as a volunteer, a fundraiser,
or a professional campaigner at the national, state, and local levels.
Her past positions include serving as the Executive Director of the National Pollution Prevention
Roundtable, Clean Water Network and The Massachusetts Citizens for Handgun Control. She was
also the Deputy Director of the Environmental Council of the States, and Director of Recycling and
Legislative Affairs for the Glass Packaging Institute where she testified on Capitol Hill and helped
Union workers at glass plants across the country expand their recycling efforts. Other positions
include serving as a recycling planner and solid waste information officer, for the Massachusetts
Department of Environmental Quality Engineering and working in Takoma Park, MD as a Recycling
Coordinator. She has served on numerous boards including the Clean Beaches Council and Violence
Policy Center.
Currently Natalie is the founder and team leader of the Bicycling Realty Group of KW Metro Center,
a top producing real estate team in Arlington and the DMV, that offers clients the option of touring a
community by bike. She is also a member of the Agent Leadership Council at KW Metro Center
(Keller Williams) and the Culture Committee Co-Chair. In the past, she has helped her brokerage
organize an annual event entitled, Bridging the Gap, raising thousands of dollars for local non-profit
organizations.
Personal: Nikki and Natalie raised their three children in Arlington. All three daughters attended
the neighborhood public schools, where they thrived. Her oldest daughter currently lives with her
husband and daughter in the Arlington Heights neighborhood. Natalie’s husband, Manik Roy, whom
she met 43 years ago while working for an environmental advocacy clean water group, continues to
work on climate change issues on Capitol Hill. Natalie graduated from Duke University with a BA in
History. She is also a graduate of Arlington’s Neighborhood College, a civic leadership development
program for Arlington residents.
