Details
First Name * | Nathan |
Middle Name or Initial | C. |
Last Name * | Walker |
Suffix | Ed.D. |
Title * | Executive Director and Publisher |
Affiliation * | Education Law Association |
Location * | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
Handle * | NateWalker |
About
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Biography | Nathan C. Walker, Ed.D. is president of 1791 Delegates, a public charity that advances the public understanding of the five freedoms of the First Amendment—religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition. Named after the year the Bill of Rights was ratified, 1791 Delegates manages the Education Law Association, The Foundation for Religious Literacy, and the social learning community at ReligionAndPublicLife.org. Dr. Walker is an award-winning instructor of First Amendment and human rights law at Rutgers University-Camden, where he serves as an Honors College faculty fellow and public humanities fellow. As a specialist in nonprofit leadership, Dr. Walker serves as board chair for the Public Religion Research Institute, an advisor to the Muslim Public Affairs Council, and a member of the American Academy of Religion’s Committee on the Public Understanding of Religion. He served as founding board chair of Abolitionist Sanctuary and founding treasurer of the Utah 3Rs Project. He previously helped write the Religious Studies Companion Document for the C3 Framework for the National Council for the Social Studies. He served the American Educational Research Association as the chair of the Religion & Education group and program chair of the Law & Education group. In addition to serving as the associate editor of the peer-reviewed academic journal, Religion & Education, Dr. Walker has published five books and various policy reports, including:
Nate served as a resident fellow in law and religion at Harvard University. He received his Doctor of Education degree in First Amendment law from Columbia University, where he received his Master of Arts and Master of Education degrees. Reverend Nate is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister and received his Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary. He spent 15 years serving congregations in New York and Boston, and the last seven as the senior minister of the historic First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia. Since 2014, he has been serving as the affiliated community minister for religion and public life at the Church of the Larger Fellowship. He lives with his husband Vikram Paralkar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. |