Meet the team

Natalie Kuldell

Natalie Kuldell, PhD, Founder and Executive Director, BioBuilder Educational Foundation.

The Margret and H.A. Rey 2020 Curiosity Award recipient, and 2020 STEM Trailblazer by the Million Women Mentors, Natalie is a highly regarded educator and curriculum developer who has taught for more than a dozen years in the Department of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She studied Chemistry as an undergraduate at Cornell, completed her doctoral and post-doctoral work at Harvard Medical School, and taught at Wellesley College before joining the faculty at MIT in 2003.

Natalie has been a longtime member of the Catalyst Collaborative@MIT Advisory Board as well as a featured speaker at Central Conversations.