New York City, New York ∙ Columbia University

Originally from Springfield, Virginia, Nathnael is a 3rd-Year student at Columbia Law School and a 2022 summa cum laude University of Chicago graduate. While Nathnael loves to discuss sports for DMVSportsZone, his primary passions are immigration, education, and civil rights.

In college, he assisted on visa casework and college preparation. In law school, he led the civil rights moot court, promotes inclusive scholarship on Law Review, and serves indigent clients.

Nathnael’s most profound work was advancing his high school’s 2020 nationally-recognized renaming from Robert E. Lee to John R. Lewis. These efforts have grown Nathnael’s devotion to justice, motivating him to become an attorney and elected official serving his community.