Hailing from Los Angeles, California, Nathan Lee received his B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University and J.D. from NYU School of Law. He also received a M.A. from the Politics department at NYU, where is currently a PhD candidate.
During his time at NYU Law, Nathan had the opportunity to engage in civil rights and racial justice work through the Civil Rights Clinic. As part of his work, Nathan was involved in challenging discriminatory infrastructure and housing projects in Illinois, Florida, South Carolina, and New York.
He was also an intern with the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, working on issues of police accountability and community engagement. Additionally, Nathan did research as part of the NYU-Yale American Indian Sovereignty Project and the Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy, and Land Use Law.
Nathan is also passionate about education and has enjoyed teaching undergraduates at NYU as both an adjunct professor and teaching assistant. In his free time, Nathan enjoys spending time with his family, picking up new sports, and reading fiction.
Carrie Ann Shirota, Policy Director of the ACLU of Hawai‘i: “We are thrilled to have Nathan Lee join our Policy team and apply his interdisciplinary academic and clinical advocacy training to advance our policy campaigns. Nathan will assist in legislative advocacy to enhance opportunities to give full force to the Hawai‘i Constitution that features remarkably sweeping and expansive language of civil rights and liberties. Through research and collaboration, Nathan will help to build upon a community of scholarship and advocacy in Hawai‘i.”