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

Before her time at UMD, Dr. Vinski Ibrahim served as Director of the Office of International Education Programs at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, where she oversaw faculty-led travel programs and advised international students.

She holds a Ph.D. in International Education Policy from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her academic and professional interests include international and contemplative education, intergroup dialogue, and gender issues in higher education. She has co-led education abroad programs to Tohoku, Japan, and Santiago, Dominican Republic, and participated in the Búsquedas Investigativas research practicum in Havana, Cuba.

Dr. Vinski Ibrahim also holds a Master’s in Intercultural Relations from Lesley University and a Bachelor’s in American Cultural Studies from Dickinson College. As an undergraduate, she studied abroad in Prague, Czech Republic, through the School for International Training.