Reverend Dr. Nathan C. Walker is a First Amendment and human rights educator. He serves as the executive director of 1,791 Delegates, a legal education firm named after the year the Bill of Rights was ratified. In this capacity, he manages The Foundation for Religious Literacy and and directs ReligionAndPublicLife.org, a social learning community dedicated to cultivate the civic competencies of religious literacy and legal literacy.

Dr. Walker has published five books, including, “The First Amendment and State Bans on Teachers’ Religious Garb” (Routledge 2019), which Kirkus Reviews called “a thorough, magisterial account of a timely and historically important legal debate.” Dr. Walker coedited with Michael D. Waggoner, “The Oxford Handbook on Religion and American Education” (Oxford University Press 2018), and he coedited with Edwin J. Greenlee, “Whose God Rules? “(Palgrave Macmillan 2011), which Cornel West called “provocative and pioneering.” Dr. Walker also coauthored with Lyal S. Sunga the policy report, “Promoting and Protecting the Universal Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief through Law” (IDLO 2017), which he presented at the United Nations Human Rights Council.

In November 2016, Publishers Weekly listed Nate’s Cultivating Empathy (Skinner House Press 2016) as one of the top “six books for a post-election spiritual detox.” In endorsing his book “Exorcising Preaching,” the Rev. Meg Riley says that “Nate Walker is boldly creative—a visionary, on-the-edge kind of thinker.”

Dr. Walker previously served as a resident fellow in law and religion at Harvard University and received his doctorate in First Amendment law from Columbia University, where he received his Masters of Arts and Masters of Education degrees. He received his Masters of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary and is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, currently serving as the community minister for religion and public life at the Church of the Larger Fellowship. He lives with his husband Vikram Paralkar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. To learn more, visit www.NateWalker.com.