By leveraging more than 20 years of lived and professional experience, Nathan helps organizations and communities respond to violence and trafficking of boys and young men, often overlooked in the movements in those fields.
A Fellow of the U.S. Office on Trafficking in Persons’ Human Trafficking Leadership Academy and member of the National Council on Child Trafficking and the Board of Love 146, Nathan is completing his Masters in Public Health at Yale.
In 2014, with his mother and sister, he founded the Ark of Freedom Alliance, a nonprofit for boys who’d been trafficked for sex, which Earl ran until 2021. The specialized program provided street outreach in south Florida to youth at risk of human trafficking. The Ark also provided housing coordination, case management, and mentoring to young men struggling with substance dependency who had been impacted by labor and/or sex trafficking.
Today at his consultancy Giant Slayer, Nathan assists Federal, State, and NGO partners to increase their capacity to prevent human trafficking in the areas of research, policy, collective impact, primary prevention, and crisis intervention.
A member of multiple research teams studying the scope and prevalence of male sex trafficking, acute gaps in mental health care experienced by survivors of human trafficking,
Training and education about males, 2SLGBTQ+ young adults, individuals challenged with substance dependency and runaway / homeless youth.
Technical assistance to support strategic planning, program development, training and education, communications, community response, healthcare response and document review.
Providing backbone support to The U.S. Council on Violence against Men and Boys, a collective impact initiative collaborating to prevent violence against males through advocacy, community convening, research and education.