Julia Pierce | July 11, 2026 Updated | July 11, 2026 9:00 P.M. | Updated July 13, 2026 9:20 A.M.

I have had a resounding question in my mind and ears for several weeks since Dr. Natalie Nicole blew in from the west wind in 2025 like she might have been the wicked witch of the west in “The Wizard of Oz.” Dr. Natalie Nicole is most synonymous as an Isaiah Hugley supporter, political operative, and public detractor.

Admittedly, I appreciated a lot of her work in the beginning, because exposure of corruption in Columbus is something that I have been doing since 2016, but no one believed me, because I guess I wasn’t a doctor like she is. People tend to give more attention to what someone is saying when they have the Dr. in front of their name.

So today, I decided to go validate whether Natalie Nicole is in fact a Dr. What I found, at first lead more to the answer which was “No,” but now with the community doing research to help out and sending me the information that answered our original questions, the answer is moving towards, “Maybe so.” The main remaining component is whether the name in which Dr. Natalie Nicole received her Ed.D from Liberty University is her legal name. That research through that process is presented below.

Natalie Nicole’s Name is Natalie Mesidor

I simply performed an internet search for Natalie Nicole and a slough of online content was produced. This is the first site I found in which she wrote about herself on her own wordpress site. As far as I could see, this site had not been updated since 2014 and it indicated that she lived in El Paso, Texas with her two daughters, Ashley B. Mesidor and Audrey E. Mesidor. It did NOT say anything about a doctorate or even the thought of a doctorate at this point.

It did mention that she had a BA in Communications from Columbus State University, completed 18 hours of leadership training, was pursuing her masters in Administration, is a retired army veteran and graduated from Barbizon Modeling and Acting Agency. She interned at the Columbus Times and WTVM, founded her own modeling agency and is proficient in promotional modeling for companies such as Wal-mart, Tylenol, Star Wars, and Maybelline. She was also a civilian HR Supervisor.

And what I found really interesting is where she indicated that she served as a lecturer and educator in Stewart and Manchester, Georgia and El Paso, Texas lecturing on bullying. Bullying. She says her favorite phrase is “Confident People Complement Others,” and “Natalie believes that actions speak louder than words.”

So, what do Natalie’s actions speak and do they speak louder than her words? And if she has been accused of bullying others who do not support her views or her candidates, does that mean, according to her own words, that she isn’t confident anymore – or was she ever? Let’s see.

Natalie’s Social Media Listings Show She Is/Was a Realtor and a Doctoral Candidate

Natalie posted on her Century 21 profile that she was a doctoral candidate at Liberty University. I was unable to see a current or most recent date of this website.

I did find that she had a business via the Secretary of State’s Business Search, called Natalie Nicole, Realtor LLC which was administratively dissolved in 2022, so it would be plausible to infer that her Century 21 posting would have been before that.

Also, I verified that Natalie Mesidor is not actively licensed as a realtor via Georgia Realtors and the Georgia Real Estate Commission or the Columbus Board of Realtors.

I did find; however, that a “Natalie Nicole” was listed as a realtor with the Georgia Real Estate Commission, but her license is inactive as of July 8, 2026. I’m curious how she is registered as Natalie Nicole, if her name is Natalie Mesidor?

I also found that she is not registered as “Natalie Nicole” with the Georgia Realtors.

And further, she is not registered with the Columbus Board of Realtors as Natalie Nicole or Natalie Mesidor. I performed a search by the name “Nicole” because I couldn’t find a “Natalie” or a “Mesidor.”

So, it may be plausible to believe that her century 21 post may have also been current as of this year, though, I was more poised to believe it was as of 2022.

Natalie’s Social Media Shows She is Presently Studying to Gain Her Ed.D. and was an Educator at Eddy Middle School as of 2023 According to WRBL News 3

But wait! Then I found her LinkedIn profile which shows that she was a doctoral candidate at Liberty University from “2016 – Present.” So according to her LinkedIn, she hasn’t completed her doctoral program. It is plausible that she just hasn’t updated her LinkedIn profile recently.

But then … I found that Natalie Mesidor was an educator at Eddy Middle School as of three years ago, which would be about 2023. It is interesting that the write-up for her as an educator didn’t mention that she was Dr. Natalie Nicole, so as of 2023, she had not gained her Ed.D. She was still just Natalie Mesidor.

Natalie Mesidor becomes Natalie N Nicole and Natalie McDowell and Possibly April E McDowell, April E. Gregory, Natalie Nicole McDowell, April McDowell Jr., and April Boehmer

I decided to look up any businesses that Natalie was licensed under in the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office for Role Model Academy and for Role Model Academy of Arts. I found that Role Model Academy LLC was Administratively Dissolved on 9/8/2023 where Natalie N Mesidor was listed as the Registered Agent.

Then I found Role Model Academy of Arts, Ltd., where she is currently and actively listed as “Natalie N Nicole” as the CEO, but her registered agent name is “Natalie Nicole McDowell.”

What I find interesting about this is that Natalie lists her name 2 different ways on this registration and it is confusing as to which one she is, but I am also confused why she listed her name as Natalie “N” Nicole. I decided to do a search on her on the web and what I found next caused me to question if Natalie Nicole, since she has experience as an actor, may have alter egos or identities that she uses online.

This screenshot indicates that she may be using names such as April E. McDowell, April E. Gregory, Natalie Nicole McDowell, April McDowell, Jr., and April Boehmer. I will say that several years ago, I had several different names under my record because I had an identity thief who was creating an online footprint for me that I was constantly contesting and requesting to have them deleted, so I don’t want to accuse Natalie of being an identity thief, but this is somewhat curious.

I saw that Natalie Nicole McDowell operates Role Model Academy of Arts, Ltd. so I wondered when Natalie Nicole Mesidor became Natalie Nicole McDowell. I searched in PeachCourt which shows many cases for individuals by county. I did a search for Natalie McDowell and the only thing that was returned was the case that Jaketra Bryant filed against Natalie McDowell. This is important because if Natalie had married anyone in Georgia between 2022 and 2026, according to the Secretary of State’s registration, I should have seen a marriage certificate for Natalie and Mr. McDowell. It is important to note that I have looked in Texas, in Maryland, and Georgia for documentation for a legal name change and have yet to find one. It is also important to note that common law marriage is not recognized or approved in Georgia as of January 1, 1997.

What I found interesting in this search is that I tried to do a search for her husband’s name and I found several links to websites that are either not found, under construction, or for her dissolved business. I found no information for a husband at all.

Natalie Has So Many Different Websites that Do Not Work, Are Under Construction, or Point to her Dissolved Business but Do Not Mention a Husband on the Surface

Her Facebook page told me to go to drnatalienicole.com, which said the site can’t be reached and that there may be a typo, but I clicked her link from her facebook page. And as of February 16, 2026, her name is still listed as Dr. Natalie Nicole, but there are no pictures of a Mr. McDowell and there is no mention of a Mr. McDowell at all. So this tells me that maybe her name change was recent, but again, there is no legal documentation in PeachCourt that indicates a legal name change without a marriage either.

Her Facebook also lists her domain as drnatalienicole.org and when I put that into the search bar, I was given an “under construction” message.

Then I searched for a website for her Role Model Academy of Arts for a website and the only one I found was for her dissolved business “Role Model Academy” at a completely different web address.

And then I looked for her podcast and I found that she has it titled after her dissolved business, Role Model Academy, too, and I wondered if this “King George,” George McDowell was her husband.

I did do a little digging on the internet as of July 13, 2026, and found that Truth Finder indicates that Natalie Mesidor is not married and that George Calvin McDowell is married to Shavonne McDowell.

I do understand that these databases may not always be up to date. I did go to every state and county listed as places that both George, Shavonne, and Natalie have as previous residences and I am unable at the moment to find any marriage or divorce records for either of these individuals. So as it stands, Natalie and George may not be married, because George is married to another woman. So is Natalie the mistress?

Natalie Mesidor, Natalie Nicole, nor Natalie McDowell Have an Active Educator’s License or Ed.D License

I decided to do a search for her doctoral license in Georgia at the Georgia Professional Standards Commission and whaddya know? I didn’t find one. But what I did find is that ALL Natalie’s teaching certifications have expired, with the last one – a clearance certification – which is expired as of June 30, 2026, which was 12 days prior to this publication, and she wasn’t actively certified to educate any grade level between June 30, 2023 and June 30, 2026.

I noticed that the earliest date that I could find that Natalie Mesidor became “Dr. Natalie Nicole” was August 29, 2025 while she was standing in front of a sign that said Role Model Academy, her dissolved business.

On April 18, 2026, “Dr.” Natalie Nicole endorsed Isaiah Hugley, but this was not before bashing all of the councilors that voted to terminate Isaiah, the mayor for being passive, and all the candidates that were running against him. Was she already hired as a political operative for Isaiah Hugley to run his background agenda and then she would officially endorse him after the damage had been done to set Isaiah up for the win?

On June 27, 2026, Natalie Nicole, not Dr. Natalie Nicole, attended a seminar, where Corie Wilson, Marvin Broadwater, Theresa El-Amin, Major (Ret.) Gamaliel Turner, Rev. Dr. Marcus Gibson, Attorney Gerald Griggs, and Democratic Chairperson Royal Anderson. Interestingly enough Natalie is in front of a picture of a documentary that is called “Vigilantes Inc Americas New Vote Suppression Hitmen.”

I found it interesting that this picture linked Natalie to Corie Wilson and it showed a very vocal supporter and Omega brother of Isaiah Hugley, Dr. Marvin Broadwater, in his Omega Psi Phi purple and gold, at this meeting with Natalie Nicole, Not Dr. Natalie Nicole.

And then on, June 20, 2026, Natalie Nicole, NOT Dr. Natalie Nicole, congratulated Isaiah Hugley as the 71st mayor of Columbus, Georgia and the first elected black mayor of Columbus, Georgia.

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So, did Dr. Natalie Nicole blow out of Columbus and return to Florida as just plain ol’ Natalie Nicole now that her job is done?

So, the Real Question is Natalie Nicole a Dr.?

I reached out to the Georgia Professional Standards Commission to ask if Natalie Nicole is licensed as a Ed.D. I sent them all the attachments I have included in this publication and a few more. I am waiting to hear back from someone.

I think it is interesting that in August of 2025, she began calling herself a Dr., and even though her LinkedIn reveals that she was now a Ed.D from Liberty University, what she didn’t know is that when I clicked on my profile, because I went to Liberty University and graduated in October 1, of 2025, it said that she and I attended Liberty at the same time. So how did she become a Dr. in August but was still attending Liberty University as of October 1, 2025? And where is her degree?

She also has that she began as the CEO at Role Model Academy of Arts in April 2018, but the Secretary of State’s registration for this business was formed on March 7, 2024. So how could she be the CEO of a business that wouldn’t be formed for 6 more years.

Then I came across a video on her instagram on June 18, 2026, where she doesn’t call herself “Dr. Natalie Nicole” at all, and she is correcting a woman who tried to contact Role Model Academy of Arts, whereby Natalie Nicole tells her that there is a website for Role Model Academy of “The” Arts (not Role Model Academy of Arts), an email, and phone number, and that she moved this business from California in 2017.

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When I searched the California Secretary of State for that business, it showed no record of that business and there is in fact no Role Model Academy of Arts except in the Secretary of State’s office registration in Georgia. I did look up Natalie Nicole and the only records that came up had no such business in her name.

Around 2 P.M. on July 11, 2026, hours after I first released this publication, I received confirmation that Natalie McDowell did in fact attend her commencement ceremony on April 22, 2025, though I do not see any photos of her actually walking and receiving her degree on any of her social media. So we can only trust that if she was on this list, then she did in fact received her Ed.D.

And so the question of whether Dr. Natalie Nicole is a Dr. is still in limbo, because she graduated as Natalie McDowell. Thereby she should be Dr. Natalie McDowell. There is no Dr. Natalie Nicole. Natalie Nicole did not earn her Ed.D. Also, we do not know if Natalie Mesidor ever legally became Natalie McDowell, so if she earned her Ed.D. as Natalie McDowell, and that wasn’t her legal name, then there could be conflict as to whether she obtained her Ed.D. from Liberty University under a fraudulent name.

As far as whether all of this above ends up getting resolved, there is still one more piece that needs a solution and that is whether Dr. Natalie McDowell can practice without a license. I looked up the laws in Georgia and there is no law that requires or states that it doesn’t require her to be licensed as a Ed.D. So, if everything else is resolved, then we can affirmatively answer that she is a doctor, but only as Natalie McDowell; not Natalie Nicole.

Dr. Natalie Nicole is a fictional character and could be said that she uses it for entertainment purposes only, but she would always need to make that disclaimer before she releases anything as Dr. Natalie Nicole. If she wants to be taken seriously then using Dr. Natalie McDowell would have been the proper name and title to release herself to Columbus politics and the public.

Questions that Need Answers

• Who is Natalie really?
• Is she Natalie Mesidor? Is she Natalie Nicole? Is she Natalie McDowell? Is she Dr. Natalie Nicole? Is she some other person that we don’t really know?
• Is she really a Dr?
• Why does she currently use the name of her dissolved business instead of her active business?
• Why did she seem only concerned with Modeling agency type business until August of 2025?
• Why does it seem there is no consistent way to contact Natalie.
• Why does it seem she has a sordid employment history?
• Why has she been in Texas, California, Florida, Maryland, and Georgia?
• Is she actually married?
• Why does it seem like she is getting caught in her own lies?
• Did Isaiah Hugley hire her as a political operative for his campaign?
• Is Corey Wilson and Marvin Broadwater part of Isaiah’s operation?
• Why is she using and actively working from a business that is no longer registered or active, but calls her business something entirely different?
• Why are her social media profiles not consistent?
• Why are her websites not accessible, except for her dissolved business from 2023?
• Why did she educate against bullying but it appears that is what she has been doing to all of those who opposed Isaiah Hugley as city manager and those who were his mayoral competition or non-supporters?
• Did Natalie Nicole actually go to Liberty University?
• Did Natalie Nicole actually get her Ed.D. from Liberty University?
• Is she just a model and actor that played a part for Isaiah’s benefit?
• Why did her realtor’s license lapse?
• Why did her educator’s certifications lapse?
• Why are there no pictures of her commencement ceremony or degree?
• Are Natalie and George married?

ChatGPT says that falsely claiming to have a Ed.D. may result in criminal fraud, forgery, larceny by trick, grand larceny/theft by deception, and government fraud, just to name a few. If she is claiming to be Dr. Natalie Nicole, when she obtained her Ed.D. as Natalie McDowell, claiming to be a Doctor as Natalie Nicole may be considered unethical and/or criminal. After all, she has given no disclaimer?

And as a last item of business, I found out that Natalie McDowell a.k.a. Dr. Natalie Nicole was appointed to the Columbus Consolidated Governorment’s Personnel Review Board from January 2026 to December 2028.

So my last question is do we need someone who seems to have very bad judgment, doesn’t know who she is, what she does, what she believes, appears to lie about many things, is possibly committing identity fraud or theft, and is in charge of reviewing personnel matters that will align with Isaiah Hugley’s desire to make everyone in his administration black, seem like a good judgment call?

What do you see? What questions do you have?

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