About The Author
About the Author
Natalie Franklin was born in St. Croix, Virgin Islands in
1967 to Clarice McIntosh Franklin and Nathaniel Llewellyn
Franklin.
Natalie is a 17-year veteran of the field of people with
disabilities. She began her early career working with
abused and neglected children. Since then, she has worked
as a sign language interpreter, job coach, certified nursing
assistant, after school tutor and sign language teacher.
Natalie holds certificates of completion in American Sign
Language from the University of the Virgin Islands.
A product of the St. Croix Catholic school system, Natalie
is an insatiable reader, a passionate writer, and a life-long
learner who has enjoyed studying physics, languages,
religions, cultures, mathematics, drawing and color systems
throughout the years. For the past 12 years, one of her
greatest joys has been integrating diverse fields such as
mathematics, language, color, poetry and music and
discovering symbolic systems to represent them. These
she shares in “The Children of Color”. Her most fervent
passion is children and she lives to bring out the genius in
all children by stimulating creativity and nurturing pride in
one’s heritage and in one’s natural gifts.
The photograph is her at an early age on the porch of her
childhood home in Estate Whim in Frederiksted, St. Croix.
Natalie Franklin was born in St. Croix, Virgin Islands in
1967 to Clarice McIntosh Franklin and Nathaniel Llewellyn
Franklin.
Natalie is a 17-year veteran of the field of people with
disabilities. She began her early career working with
abused and neglected children. Since then, she has worked
as a sign language interpreter, job coach, certified nursing
assistant, after school tutor and sign language teacher.
Natalie holds certificates of completion in American Sign
Language from the University of the Virgin Islands.
A product of the St. Croix Catholic school system, Natalie
is an insatiable reader, a passionate writer, and a life-long
learner who has enjoyed studying physics, languages,
religions, cultures, mathematics, drawing and color systems
throughout the years. For the past 12 years, one of her
greatest joys has been integrating diverse fields such as
mathematics, language, color, poetry and music and
discovering symbolic systems to represent them. These
she shares in “The Children of Color”. Her most fervent
passion is children and she lives to bring out the genius in
all children by stimulating creativity and nurturing pride in
one’s heritage and in one’s natural gifts.
The photograph is her at an early age on the porch of her
childhood home in Estate Whim in Frederiksted, St. Croix.
| The Children of Color was born of two primary passions: the love of children, and the love of discovery. |
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