Dr. Natalie Kuldell is a molecular biologist and educator who has combined these two parts of her career into the BioBuilder Educational Foundation, a nonprofit she founded in 2011. BioBuilder provides exposure to real-world STEM applications and industry-relevant skills to ready the largest and most diverse group of students for college and careers in science. Over the last 14 years, BioBuilder has provided content and programs in 49 states and over 66 countries, impacting approximately 65,000 students, teachers, and industry professionals. This year, BioBuilder launched a second curricular offering to complement its problem-based learning modules. This new curriculum, BioTechBuilder, is more directly connected to skills-based training, enabling students to earn a recognizable certification that speaks to their mastery of some fundamental lab techniques. The curriculum won the 2024 Educator’s Choice “Best of STEM” award for Career and Technical Education curriculum. BioBuilder's laboratory kits are distributed by Carolina Biological Supply Company and are used by 1000s of students each year. BioBuilder's textbook was published by O’Reilly Media in 2015 and has since been translated into multiple languages including Russian and Japanese. BioBuilder opened a community lab in Kendall Square’s LabCentral in 2017, a second in 2021 inside Ginkgo Bioworks, and a third in Allston Labworks in February of this year. Dr. Kuldell studied Chemistry as an undergraduate at Cornell, completed her doctoral and postdoctoral work at Harvard Medical School, and taught at Wellesley College before joining the Department of Biological Engineering faculty at MIT in 2003. She is the 2020 recipient of the Margret and H.A. Rey Curiosity Award and the Million Women Mentors STEM Trailblazer Award.