Nathalie Ribeiro

Nathalie Ribeiro, known as Tata, is a submission grappler and Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt competitor and instructor, born in 1992 near Rio de Janeiro. She started jiu-jitsu at eight, stopped after becoming a mother and returned as a white belt, then moved to the United States in 2015 on an athletic scholarship. She became an IBJJF world champion in colored belts in 2017 in both gi and no-gi, was promoted to black belt by Lucas Leite in March 2018 and became the 2019 World No-Gi champion. She later won the European Open in 2022 and the Pan American title in 2021 and 2022, and has won three medals at the black belt world championship. She teaches at a Checkmat academy in California.