SN. 6 | Ep236 - Sit With Us Founder - Natalie Hampton & Carolyn Hampton

Our Special Guest is the Founder of the Sit With Us App, Natalie Hampton. We are also joined by her mom Carolyn Hampton.16 year old Natalie Hampton was severely bullied at middle school and ate lunch alone every day.Things got better after she switched schools, but she never forgot the pain that she went through eating alone.Now, with a new group of friends and a new school, Natalie began inviting anyone that she saw eating lunch alone to join her and her friends. She saw that one simple act of kindness made a big difference in their lives.This inspired her to create the award-winning Sit With Us mobile app at the age of sixteen.In only two short years the response to Natalie's app has become a global movement!The app has won numerous awards, has been featured by Apple under “New Apps We Love” in the App Store, has been downloaded by 120,000+ people in eight countries worldwide, and has garnered the attention and acclaim of international media and press.Natalie has been invited to speak at many events, including the “Girls Can Do” conference (Washington D.C.), the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the United Nations Youth Assembly, and TEDxTeen in London.She is also proud to be partnering with six prominent anti-bullying organizations, including Born This Way Foundation, PACER, and Champions Against Bullying.Now 18 years old, Stanford Freshman Natalie Hampton is slowing down at all!She is a senior counselor for United in Harmony, a non-profit organization that runs a sleep away camp for underprivileged and homeless kids, serves as the Political Director of March for Our Lives – Bay Area, and is the co-founder of March for Our Lives at StanfordThe first step to a warmer more inclusive community can begin with lunch.Sit With Us is:A free mobile anti-bullying app to promote kindness and inclusion on school campuses!Winner of The Appy Awards 2017!Download the Sit With Us App NowFind Sit With Us on facebook.com/sitwithus.ioinstagram.com/sit.with.us/sitwithus.io