As EFF's Managing Director for Advocacy, Nathan leads the organization's advocacy and public communications, ensuring its efforts are impactful, collaborative, and innovative. He guides EFF's communication of complex technology and policy issues to journalists, policymakers, and the public, translating fast-moving technical developments into terms communities can understand and act on.

 

Guiding EFF’s activism and communications teams, Nathan directs strategy on emerging technology policy advocacy. He has co-authored widely read explainers on face recognition and helped build public understanding of its risks, and he guides EFF's thought-leadership work, including the award-winning How to Fix the Internet podcast, which makes emerging technology issues accessible to general audiences.

 

Before joining EFF's executive team, Nathan led the organization's grassroots, student, and community organizing as Director of EFF's Organizing team, supporting members of the Electronic Frontier Alliance in educating their communities on digital privacy best practices and advocating for privacy- and innovation-protecting policy and legislation.

 

Nathan’s commitment to this work is informed by lived experience with aggressive and militarized policing, and by a conviction that powerful technologies must be accountable to the communities they affect. In addition to his work at EFF, he holds advisory and board-level roles with Lucy Parsons Labs, the Everett Program at UC Santa Cruz, and the Technology and Racial Justice Collaborative at the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law.