Natalie Anne Knowlton is a director of special projects at IAALS. She focuses on legal and empirical research and analysis, facilitating collaboration among stakeholders, and undertaking national outreach and advocacy to enable continuous improvement in practices and procedures for divorce and child custody matters. Formerly, she was Director of the Honoring Families Initiative at IAALS, Manager of the Quality Judges Initiative, and before that as a Research Analyst spanning IAALS' initiatives. She has been at IAALS since April 2006. Knowlton received her J.D. from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and a M.A. in International Studies from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies. During her time at DU, she was involved in an International Criminal Tribunal Externship, through which she worked with the United Nations tribunals prosecuting war crimes in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. She then served as an Independent Contractor for the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Knowlton spent three years with the Denver Journal of International Law and Policy, and received her BA from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 2002.