For more than 30 years, Natalie Daise has developed and facilitated interactive learning experiences for educators, students, and audiences in schools, universities, conferences, and other venues. Her belief in the positive power of stories is demonstrated in her speaking as well as in the performing and visual arts. As a self-taught, visionary artist, Natalie’s painting and functional art pieces arise from the tradition of storytelling.

Best known as “Ms. Natalie” on Nick Jr.’s award-winning television program, Gullah Gullah Island, Natalie is committed to entertaining, educating, empowering and inspiring.

Her many awards and nominations include 1997 and 1998 IMAGE Award nominations, 1998 Daytime Emmy nomination, Silver and Gold Parent’s Choice awards, South Carolina’s highest honor, The Order of the Palmetto, South Carolina’s Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Award given for lifetime achievement and excellence in folk art and a Merit Award for Art, ARTFields in 2017.

She has been married to Ron Daise, her cheerleader, supporter, and committed partner in creativity and life since 1985. They have two children, Sara and Simeon, by birth, and one, Sabrina, by heart. She earned a BA degree from Vermont College in 1992 and a MA in Creativity Studies in 2014.