​Natalie is a molecular biologist with a deep love for science and our shared planet. During her postdoctoral training at Yale University she actively used CRISPR technology to study the mammalian cardiovascular system. In 2016, however, while attending a talk on conservation biology at the Yale School of Forestry she became intrigued by the use of gene editing to solve environmental issues. That's when she began asking questions like Could the emerald ash borer be genetically altered to save American ash trees? Would Mother Nature approve of such changes? How do we ask?  In 2017, she founded Editing Nature to help navigate the technical, ecological, and ethical complexity of such questions and ensure gene editing technologies are used to the benefit, and not detriment of our planet. She is now a leading voice for the advancement of inclusive science and integrated deliberation models.

Natalie has authored numerous scientific research articles, reviews, and commentary pieces, chaired international seminars and summits, served on expert panels, and contributed to UN mandated documents. Her work has been highlighted by The New York Times, Science, Nature, NPR, CBC Radio, Pacific Standard Magazine, and National Geographic. She lectures at the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Harvard Medical School. She served as the resident scholar in sustainability a the University of Illinois, a visiting scholar at the Hastings Center for Bioethics, and is an affiliate scholar at the Yale Program in Biomedical Ethics. She received her PhD in cellular, molecular, and medical biosciences and MS in human nutrition and metabolic studies from Columbia University and her BS in human anatomy and cell biology from McGill University.