Natalie has been a science teacher for 25 years, primarily at the college, but also at the high school level. Having been ordained in 2017, she is also an interfaith minister and performs weddings and rites of passage ceremonies. Currently, Natalie is at the the University of North Carolina (Wilmington) as an adjunct teaching a social justice focused first year experience class. Prior to relocating, she had been the social justice coordinator and chemistry teacher at the Long Trail School in Dorset, VT. She was a professor at Green Mountain College (that closed in Spring 2019) for nearly 20 years. She continues to create and teach courses that are relevant and exciting and help inspire her students to step fully into their own potential. Her scholarship includes dozens of scientific articles (from the genetics of obesity mice and humans to the molecular underpinnings of disease resistance in beech trees), a few creative nonfiction pieces (primarily focused on teaching) and she has just published her first poem (with more to come!).