Natalie Rubio is founding executive director of Single Mom Scholars Houston and a Texas-based K–12 executive with more than 22 years of system-level leadership experience across public school districts and charter networks. She has dedicated her career to closing the quality-of-life gap for students and advancing workforce development through strong talent systems, recognizing K–12 education as a critical pipeline to regional economic mobility.

Most recently, Natalie served as senior vice president of strategy, learning, and impact at MAS Charter Schools, where she led enterprise strategy, instructional systems, talent management, and cross-functional planning in partnership with the CEO and executive cabinet. She redesigned performance management infrastructure, aligned data systems to accountability goals, oversaw large-scale professional learning, and strengthened workforce planning across more than 250 employees—contributing to 100 percent campus spotlight designations and a 35-point increase in staff retention.

Previously, as founding executive director for IDEA Public Schools Greater Houston, Natalie launched and scaled a new region from zero to six fully enrolled campuses in two years. She led academic strategy, operations, fundraising, and board development, managing a $15 million budget and a $71 million capital campaign. The region earned a national Operational Excellence award, achieved 100 percent enrollment and 97.5 percent average daily attendance, and received an A/B rating from TEA.

Earlier, as senior vice president of schools at IDEA San Antonio and as a district director in Houston ISD, Natalie strengthened principal pipelines, redesigned interview and selection systems, built teacher certification pathways, and earned an overall A rating from the National Council on Teacher Quality for teacher preparation programming.

She began her career as a high school English teacher and school leader. Natalie holds a master of liberal arts and a bachelor of arts in English literature from the University of St. Thomas and completed Wharton’s Chief Strategy Officer program.