Natalie J. White (Lambert) is an assistant professor in the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University. She earned her B.A. in Telecommunication from the University of Georgia and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Lambert's primary research areas are organizational and health communication. She utilizes computational methodologies like network analysis and text mining to analyze large-scale social and textual datasets. Her research appears in top communication journals such as Health Communication and Communication Research, and she authors book chapters dedicated to training the next generation of computational social scientists.