As Director of Communications and Community for Creative Commons, Nate collaborates to support our vibrant global community of people dedicated to sharing knowledge and creativity, and to amplify the stories they generate.
Nate is an evangelist focused on community development, digital communications, meaningful education, open technologies, and sustainable growth. He has worked across a wide variety of organizations, including open-source technology providers like Hypothesis and rSmart, Oregon startups like Lumen Learning and Little Bird, global communities like the Apereo Foundation, Creative Commons, Mozilla Open Leaders, and Virtually Connecting, and public/nonprofit institutions like Portland State University and the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry. Nate is ABD for a PhD in American Civilization with a focus on critical media studies. Nate lives in Portland, Oregon USA with some other cats and humans. Learn more about Nate on his blog, or connect with him on Twitter or Mastodon.