Nathan C. Walker

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About Nathan C. Walker

Dr. Nathan C. Walker is the president of 1791 Delegates and the principal investigator of the AI Ethics Lab at Rutgers University. 1791 Delegates is a nonprofit public charity named after the year the states ratified the Bill of Rights. Dr. Walker leads a delegation of First Amendment and human rights educators to cultivate the public's literacy about our fundamental freedoms. Dr. Walker is an award-winning instructor at Rutgers University, where he teaches AI ethics and law as an Honors College faculty fellow. He is the principal investigator at the AI Ethics Lab, the founding editor of the AI & Human Rights Index, a contributing researcher to the Munich Declaration of AI, Data and Human Rights, and a non-resident research fellow at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Dr. Walker is a certified AI Ethics Officer and has held visiting research appointments at Harvard and Oxford universities. He has also served as an Expert AI Trainer for OpenAI’s Human Data Team, where he applied his expertise in law and education to frontier AI models. He has authored five books on law, education, and religion, and presented his research at the UN Human Rights Council, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the U.S. Senate. Nate has three learning disabilities and earned his doctorate in First Amendment law and two master’s degrees from Columbia University. An ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, Reverend Nate holds a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary. Born in Munich, Germany, and raised in the Lake Tahoe area of Nevada, Nate enjoys learning American Sign Language. He lives in Philadelphia with his husband, Vikram Paralkar. Learn more at sites.rutgers.edu/walker