Dr. Natalie Vinski Ibrahim (she/her) is the Associate Director of Honors Global Challenges & Solutions (HGLO) in the University of Maryland’s Honors College. She joined UMD in 2011 after completing a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship at University Hassan II in Casablanca, Morocco.

Prior to her role at UMD, she served as Director of the Office of International Education Programs at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, where she managed faculty-led travel programs and advised international students.

Her academic and professional interests include international and contemplative education, intergroup dialogue, and gender equity in higher education. She has co-led education abroad programs to Tohoku, Japan, and Santiago, Dominican Republic; participated in the Búsquedas Investigativas research practicum in Havana, Cuba; and will co-lead HGLO’s upcoming program in Brazil in summer 2026.

A wounded survivor of gun violence, Dr. Vinski Ibrahim is also committed to advancing data-driven solutions to the U.S. gun violence epidemic—particularly around school safety—and advocates in partnership with fellow survivors.

She holds a Ph.D. in International Education Policy from the University of Maryland, College Park, a master’s in Intercultural Relations from Lesley University, and a bachelor’s in American Studies from Dickinson College, where she studied abroad in Prague, Czech Republic, through the School for International Training.