Nathan grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah and was always a big fan of skiing, hiking, and camping. For undergrad, he attended Princeton University, where he was a varsity athlete and completed degrees in visual arts, ecology and evolutionary biology. After graduating Magna Cum Laude, he attended the University of Utah where he completed a graduate program in public health and was again a varsity athlete. Following Utah, he spent 2 years doing basic science research with the Joslin Diabetes Center at Harvard Medical School. Nathan is now a second year medical student at Stanford University and hopes to pursue plastic surgery after graduating.