Natalie Ornat earned a Master of Science in Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May 2017. She served as a Research and Instruction Graduate Assistant within both Davis Library and the Undergraduate Library, and as the student library liaison for the Academic Support Program for Student Athletes. Her work researching the impacts of reading and writing on individuals living through the siege of Sarajevo earned her the Dean’s Achievement Award and an invitation to present at the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies. Natalie came to the field of librarianship with a background in teaching. She was a 2012 Teach For America corps member and taught at a middle school in Charlotte, North Carolina. She holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Graduate Certificate in Teaching from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.
Natalie serves as the Public Services Fellow where she will work to create greater collaboration through teambuilding and workflow analysis in the newly created Public Services unit.