Nate Beard graduated with a Bachelor of Science in business administration with an emphasis in information management from the University of Colorado Boulder. Before entering the ATLAS MS ICTD program, Nate was an editor at the Unreasonable Group, where he worked with social entrepreneurs in emerging markets, impact investors and startup mentors around the world. His interests are in critical pedagogy and ethics education, as well as data privacy and global development through the lens of civil rights.
For more information about Nate, view LinkedIn and his personal website. Alumni pages are not always updated after graduation.
Publications
Nathan Beard, Graeme Troxell, Casey Fiesler. 2018. 21st Century Digital Democracy Needs a New Contract. In Internet Politics and Policy Conference (IPP 2018). (Sept. 20-21, 2018 – Oxford, U.K.).
Michael Skirpan, Nathan Beard, Srinjita Bhaduri, Casey Fiesler, and Tom Yeh. 2018. Ethics Education in Context: A Case Study of Novel Ethics Activities for the CS Classroom, In Proceedings of the SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science education (SIGCSE'18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 940-945. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3159450.3159573 (Feb. 21-24, Baltimore, Maryland). Third Best Paper in the Track: Experience Reports and Tools.