Nat Slater

Nat Slater is Samuel Center for Social Connectedness Fellow in the Disability Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. Nat primarily focuses on disability rights in the context of climate change, including impacts of climate-related planned relocation on the rights of people with disabilities.

Nat holds an M.S. in Environmental Humanities from the University of Utah, where they used participatory art-based methods to explore the intersections of environmental and disability justice. A Mellon Foundation scholar, Nat’s graduate work was supported by a fellowship focused on environmental justice and community-engaged learning.