As Executive Director of the Institute for Technology Law & Policy, Natalie brings to Georgetown Law the experience of two decades of private practice, government service, tech policy subject matter and legal workforce expertise, bar association leadership, and a deep passion for mentoring and career development. Leading a center that directly benefits more than 150 students per year, she works alongside senior-level faculty members, law school staff, and partners in Georgetown University’s Tech & Society Initiative to run one of the nation’s leading programs in technology law and policy.

Since arriving at Georgetown in 2022, Natalie has led or supported the development of new initiatives at the intersection of higher education, technology, and law and policy, with Georgetown’s social justice ethos as a guiding value.

Most recently, the Tech Institute launched the Georgetown AI and the Legal Profession (GAILP) initiative in response to timely questions and uncertainty around AI’s impact on legal practice. In its first year of operation, GAILP has proved invaluable to students, staff, and employers seeking to navigate the new world of AI in legal education and practice. Natalie also worked with Georgetown leadership and a global humanitarian NGO to create a novel, hands-on summer internship project to offer experiential learning opportunities in AI deployment and directly benefit the work of a non-profit; the model is intended to be scalable and transferable to expand the impact to more students and to NGOs with limited resources.

Natalie has collaborated with nearly two dozen faculty members, as well as Law Center and University staff, on a variety of research projects, convenings, and public-facing events. She has helped drive a new chapter in the University-wide Tech & Society Initiative and built a model for alumni engagement around the intersection of law and emerging tech. She was one of the first center or institute leaders at Georgetown to host Federal Alumni Fellows, partnering with senior-level officials leaving government to continue their work in an academic setting. The Federal Alumni Fellows at the Tech Institute produced a wide range of meaningful materials, including guidance for state attorneys general on tech fraud enforcement and a critical report on the status of universal broadband deployment.

Natalie has addressed the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) Foundation Hiring Partners Conference on the connection between skills training in law school and readiness for practice in the age of AI and participated in an Association of American Law Schools panel on the benefits of centers and institutes in moving policy research toward action. She created “Noshes with Natalie,” a regular mentoring and career conversation event for Tech Law Scholars and Tech LL.M. students at Georgetown; revived and expanded the Tech Institute’s Tech Foundations for Goverment Staff training program; and hosted more than 75 summer interns, ranging from undergraduates to PhD students, for impactful cross-pollination breakout discussions on tech policy careers. Beyond these accomplishments, Natalie is also a devoted mentor, advising students and early-career professionals and championing their growth.

Prior to joining the Institute, she was a partner and Director of Social Responsibility at the law firm of Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP (WBK) in Washington, D.C. At WBK, Natalie advised clients on technology, media, and telecommunications regulation and provided strategic guidance and advocacy before state and federal legislative, executive, and regulatory bodies. She helped the firm launch several new technology practice areas and served for many years in leadership roles in associate hiring and professional development. As Director of Social Responsibility, Natalie led WBK’s equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives and helped strengthen the firm’s pro bono service..

Natalie has more than 20 years of leadership experience in the Federal Communications Bar Association (FCBA) – The Tech Bar and served an entirely virtual term as the association’s president through the 2020-21 pandemic year. Under her presidency, the FCBA moved its robust programming online, expanded outreach to chapters around the country, and launched the Pipeline Internship Program, which places students in paid tech/media/telecom law and policy internships and trains them through a corresponding academic and skills curriculum to support their success. She was elected twice to the Board of Directors of the Women’s Bar Association of D.C. and has volunteered with the Diversity in Spectrum Council (DISC). She founded the WBK Women’s Initiative and created the FCBA Women’s Summit and FCBA Women’s Leadership Committee.

From 2008-2015, Natalie taught as an adjunct at the George Washington University Law School, where she helped GW Law attract the Federal Communications Law Journal and coached the GW Law telecommunications and technology moot court team.

Natalie previously worked in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Media Bureau and at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld as Associate and Counsel. She holds a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where she was the student commencement speaker and president of her law school class, and a B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Natalie lives in Arlington, Virginia with her husband and three children. She is a native of Wilmington, Delaware and a lifelong Philadelphia sports fan. Go Birds!