
Profile: Natalie Gummer, Center for Integrative Learning
May, 2026
Natalie Gummer is the director of the Center for Integrative Learning which develops and coordinates cross-disciplinary majors and minors that respond to the passions and hopes of students while meeting the needs that parents and employers articulate. Originally from Canada, she earned her undergraduate degree in Asian Languages, Chinese and Sanskrit, at the University of Toronto, after taking three years off, getting qualified as a stockbroker, and working on Bay Street (the Canadian equivalent of Wall Street). She earned her Ph.D. in the study of religion with a focus on Buddhism at Harvard University.








