Natalie Tamburello, MPhil
Manager, Community Engagement
Natalie is a learning disability and education equity advocate and empowerment expert, with expertise in student voice, post-secondary transitions to college and/or work, social-emotional development, community building, workshop facilitation and public speaking.
Natalie Tamburello is excited to join the Community Connections Team at CHC. As a lifelong advocate, Natalie has served a number of non-profit organizations supporting students who learn differently throughout her career, including: Learning Ally, Understood, The National Center for Learning Disabilities and Parents Education Network.
Natalie is passionate about developing and implementing programs that prepare individuals who learn differently for life’s transitions, in addition to creating and facilitating a community of parents, educators and employers to support them along their journey.
Natalie received her BA in Psychology at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. During her time at Whitman, she worked at both the Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research at Stanford and BrainLENS at the University of California – San Francisco, doing research on dyslexia and related social-emotional issues such as motivation, advocacy, self-awareness, growth mindset, grit and stereotype threat. She then completed a M.Phil in Education at the University of Cambridge in England, focusing on leadership within the LD/ADHD community and the emerging learning rights movement.
Her many volunteer activities focus on non-profit organizations and foundations serving students underrepresented and underserved in our education system, including: Eye to Eye, New Profit’s Reimagine Learning Fund, Oak Foundation and Headstrong Nation.
Education
- MPhil, Education (Perspectives on Inclusive and Special Education), Cambridge University
- BA, Psychology, Whitman College
