Nathan C. Walker

Nathan C. Walker is the president of 1791 Delegates and an award-winning instructor of First Amendment and human rights law at Rutgers University, where he teaches the honors seminar “AI Ethics & Law.”

He has published five books, including "The First Amendment and State Bans on Teachers’ Religious Garb" (Routledge), which Kirkus Reviews called “a thorough, magisterial account of a timely and historically important legal debate.” In November 2016, Publishers Weekly listed his book "Cultivating Empathy" (Skinner House Press) as one of the top “six books for a post-election spiritual detox.”

He served as a resident fellow in law and religion at Harvard University and received his doctorate in First Amendment law from Columbia University. Reverend Nate is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister and received his Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary.

He lives in Philadelphia with his husband, Vikram Paralkar.