Nate White is the Chief Technology Officer at MomsRising. He has been active in the the disability movement as a technologist and trainer at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) where he worked to make hardware, software, and websites more accessible and co-authored peer-reviewed papers and presented at conferences on accessibility in education. He developed a pilot program in Oregon to create accessible vote-by-mail ballots for blind and visually impaired voters. Nate lead the development of Carleton College's content management system (CMS), Reason CMS, and released it as open source software. The system is now used and co-developed by a network of Midwestern liberal arts colleges.
What’s the best advice you got from a child?
“After a Viking’s loss to the Greenbay Packers, my daughter said, ‘Well, at least they got on the field. It’s good to try even if you don’t win.’”