Nathan Jeide-Detweiler

Nathan is deeply committed to the notion that building just peace always starts with investigating what it means for a community to flourish. While growing up in West and Southern Africa he observed that flourishing looks very differently to different groups. He studied French, Political Science, and Philosophy while at St. Olaf College, in Minnesota, to learn different ways of knowing. Throughout his professional career with Lutheran Volunteer Corps in Washington, D.C., the ELCA Advocacy office, and currently with an immigration law firm, he has encouraged communities to deepen their relationships and then leverage them for collective change.

He is excited about being part of the MDP cohort because his research interests include exploring how to represent the economic effects of “informal economies”, how sustainable change can also be racially just, and how to build legal and cultural structures that prevent the exploitation of natural resources. He uses he/his pronouns and always welcomes an invitation to get a cup of tea or coffee.