Nathan is a senior designer, planner, and cultural landscape historian with Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects (NBW). He has over twelve years of professional experience in Canada and the United States in cultural research, Indigenous community engagement, project management, and urban planning and design, all with a particular focus on landscape, open space and the public realm.

Throughout his career, Nathan has been intimately involved in engaging and working with Indigenous Nations and Communities. By facilitating relationship-building between governments, clients, Indigenous Communities and project teams, Nathan supports inclusive processes that lead to the design and development of spaces that accurately and appropriately interpret traditional, contemporary, and potential future cultural practices and narratives.

Nathan holds a master of planning degree from Dalhousie University, a bachelor of arts in urban and regional studies from the University of Lethbridge, and studied architecture in-between degrees at the University of California, Los Angeles and Dalhousie.

In addition to the Caddo Mounds Cultural Landscape project, Nathan’s recent related experience includes working with the Eastern Band of the Cherokee in Western North Carolina, the Mi’kmaq Nation in Nova Scotia and Quebec, Canada, the Anishnaabek of Ontario, and the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot), nehyiaw (Cree), Dene, Nakoda Sioux, and Metis of Alberta, in Canada.