About Us

Natalie Schilling, Ph.D
President and CEO
Professor Emerita, Linguistics, Georgetown University

Natalie Schilling Consulting, LLC offers expert witness services in forensic linguistics, language analysis for technological and other applications, and professional writing and editorial services, including technical writing, tech marketing writing, and product documentation. Natalie also offers media and entertainment consulting in matters of linguistics, forensic linguistics, and dialects and accents and has consulted on shows such as Criminal Minds and Manhunt: Unabomber.

Natalie Schilling Consulting is experienced in working with corporate clients, research organizations, legal and law enforcement professionals, government agencies, and higher educational institutions. Other clients include educational testing services and discerning professionals seeking expert writing and editorial services.

Natalie Schilling Consulting is grounded in the expertise of its president and CEO, Natalie Schilling, who is an expert in linguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, and forensic linguistics. Now a professor emerita of linguistics at Georgetown University. Natalie directed linguistics research projects and taught graduate and undergraduate linguistics classes at Georgetown for 23 years. She has also taught at Stanford University, Duke University, North Carolina State University, and Old Dominion University and has worked in project management and journalism.

Natalie holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an M.A. in English from N.C. State University, and a B.A. in English from UNC-CH. She was also a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University.