Currently Nate is the Director of the Freedom of Information Act Project for the Archive. He oversees the thousands of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) requests and the hundreds of FOIA and MDR appeals that the Archive submits each year. An active member of the American Society of Access Professionals (the professional association of govenment FOI officers), he acts as liaison between Archive analysts and agency FOIA offices, and serves as the Archive’s FOIA counselor to the public.
He is also editor of the Archive’s blog Unredacted where he writes about newly declassified documents and FOIA policy; he also manages the Archive Twitter feed and Facebook page. He has authored the Archive’s past four government-wide FOIA Audits, including Outdated Agency Regulations Undermine Freedom of Information.