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Natalie Madeira Cofield

Natalie Madeira Cofield

Biden-Harris Presidential Appointee leading the Office of Women’s Business Ownership at the U.S. Small Business Administration

Natalie has provided some of the nation's most prominent CEOs of billion-dollar organizations, executives of global brands, senior advisors..

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Natalie has provided some of the nation’s most prominent CEOs of billion-dollar organizations, executives of global brands, senior advisors to the White House, mayors of leading national cities, and community activists and leaders with inspiration, insight and advice.

She was named by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in Business in 2019 and selected among 137 cover-story business leaders and entrepreneurs from across the nation for her response to COVID-19 in Entrepreneur Magazine’s July/August 2020 edition cover. She has also been named as among the Women Who Mean Business and one of the 100 Most Powerful Washingtonians by the Washington Business Journal.

An honors tech graduate (where she was mentored by CIOs of two of America’s leading Fortune 500 companies) Natalie has leveraged her experience coding to build a career centered on empowering businesses, entrepreneurs, women and underrepresented communities.

From Google to the National League of Cities, Natalie’s speeches, courses, and advisory services have helped to shape programs and efforts of some of the most regarded global brands, educational and government institutions.

A sought-after expert, Natalie’s work has been featured on and by CNN, NYTimes, Fast Company, Forbes, Entrepreneur, BusinessInsider, Black Enterprise, Essence, and EBONY, among others.

In 2019, Cofield was named the inaugural Entrepreneur-in-Residence for the District of Columbia providing entrepreneurship advice to creative economy businesses within the District of Columbia.

Once inspired by reading the business plans of her mother when she was 11, Natalie is the founder and former CEO of Walker’s Legacy, a digital platform to empower women through entrepreneurship, and its adjoined nonprofit arm, the Walker’s Legacy Foundation, which was established to empower income limited women through financial literacy and economic security.

An avid philanthropist, Cofield founded and funded the $25,000 funded Enterprise Women of Color scholarship at the Howard University School of Business.

Today, Cofield serves as a Presidential Appointee within the Biden-Harris Administration leading the Office of Women’s Business Ownership at the U.S. Small Business Administration as Assistant Administrator and is responsible for funding more than 135 Women’s Business Centers across the nation.

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