Nate previously served as the founder and executive director of the student movement to establish a National Tuition Endowment. Download full paper. He lead the congressional lobbying effort to return over $30 billion dollars in waste to students. The goal was simple: the money generated by students should return to students.

Listed below is the announcement of his presentation at the U.S. Senate: four of the seven recommendations eventually became law. As noted in the media coverage, Mother Jones considered Nate to be one of the top student activists of 2006.