Natalie A Billingsley spent sixteen years living and working in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Employed at Saudi Aramco Expatriate Schools as an educational coordinator, coordinating foreign language programs and the summer TESOL program. Most recently, Natalie served with the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI), observing and reporting human rights violations in East Jerusalem (2023) and the South Hebron Hills (2020).
Natalie holds a degree in Middle Eastern Studies from American Public University and is currently enrolled in the University of Arizona's Master's Program, studying human rights and documentary media.
Natalie resides on Flathead Lake in Northwest Montana. She has completed eighteen marathons and has run the Boston Marathon twice. Natalie organizes and attends weekly ceasefire demonstrations in Kalispell, Montana, and volunteers with a Montana refugee resettlement program.
We’re fighting for a ceasefire and accountability for Israeli and U.S. officials responsible for war crimes in Gaza.
DAWN is a nonprofit organization that promotes democracy, the rule of law, and human rights for all of the peoples of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
