During her undergraduate experience, Natalie Gillard found that support for individuals from diverse backgrounds was limited. This lack of support ignited her desire to pursue diverse, professional opportunities and a self-designed graduate study in race and ethnic relations. For 14 years, Gillard has held various inclusion roles throughout her career, including Stevenson University’s assistant vice president for multicultural experiences.

Gillard is the creator of FACTUALITY, a facilitated dialogue, crash course, and interactive experience that simulates structural inequality in the United States. Over the last five years, she has led virtual and in-person FACTUALITY facilitations for over 45,000 people around the world.

​FACTUALITY has supported the diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at hundreds of multinational companies, universities, government agencies, and nonprofits including Google, Twitter, American Express, Under Armour, Converse, Yale, Princeton, University of California Los Angeles, Stanford, Boston University, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, New York City Department of Correction (Rikers Correctional Facility), United Way, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, and American Heart Association—to name a few.

FACTUALITY has been featured in the Amazon best-selling book The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table and Baltimore Magazine’s Best of Baltimore issue. FACTUALITY is listed in the Kellogg Foundation’s Racial and Equity Resource Guide and became an ice cream flavor through a partnership with the social justice ice cream brand, Taharka Brothers.