Nate was an initial advisor in the creation of Oregon’s Ballot Measure 109 (the Psilocybin Services Initiative), helped with Ballot Measure 110, and was a founding member of the Craft Cannabis Alliance and the campaign to create interstate adult-use cannabis commerce as a means to accelerate the end of the drug war. \n \n He's the Executive Director and founding Board Member of the Sheri Eckert Foundation (SEF), which recently distributed $150,000 of needs-based scholarships to a diverse range of over 60 students pursuing training and licensure in psilocybin facilitation, co-presents the Horizons Northwest conference in Portland, and is now focused on directly covering the costs of psilocybin services in Oregon through SEF. \n

Nate also serves as the director of the Plant Medicine Healing Alliance and as the Director of Operations for InnerTrek – Oregon’s first licensed and operating school to train psilocybin facilitators for licensure and Portland-based Service Center for Psilocybin Services.

\n Along with his brother Aaron, Nathan founded East Fork Cultivars in 2015, a cannabis breeding company and farm dedicated to expanding the genetic diversity of the plant and creating therapeutic cannabis products. He also served on the Oregon Cannabis Association’s Board of Directors as its Vice Chair and the Co-Chair of its Political Action Committee. He is a leader in Oregon’s political community and served as a Senior Policy Advisor to Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, Mayor Wheeler’s Deputy Campaign manager for Mayor, and prior to that he worked as the Interim Executive Director at Next Up (formerly the Bus Project), a youth empowerment and civic engagement nonprofit. He also served as the Oregon Senate Finance Director and was Chief of Staff to Senator Mark Hass. He’s born and raised in SE Portland, hopes to die in Portland if he's lucky, and attended the University of Oregon where he received his BA in City Planning, Public Policy, and Management.