Meet Natalie Helser

Hey All!

My name is Natalie Helser, and I am beyond excited to be rejoining this year’s Irish Life Experience Dream Team as your Irish American History Teacher. I was lucky enough to attend in 2022 (It changed my life!), and have returned nearly every summer since as a Junior Counselor (It continued to change my life.).  Ireland is truly the most special place, and it will be an honor to welcome our ILE '26 crew to the Motherland. 

I am originally from Saint Ignatius, Montana, where my family runs a small organic farm, but after a gap year of backpacking Europe, I am now in my 3rd year studying Environmental Education and Spanish at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina, where I also race for the Triathlon Team and work for our campus’s Herb Garden.

If you can not find me on my bike, I am likely with my goofy cattle dog, Jose, concocting sourdough experiments, or knee-deep in too many projects to count. And if you can not find me there, I am probably in Ireland.

Fáilte abhaile, ILE '26!