Nathan Maxwell has joined the Institute for Free Speech as a Communications Intern for the summer of 2020. As a member of our Communications Department, Nathan will spend his internship completing a variety of communications projects aimed at increasing the effectiveness of our media outreach, authoring original content on current free speech issues for our blog, and assisting with the compilation of the Institute’s Daily Media Update. In conjunction with his internship at IFS this summer, Nathan is participating in The Fund for American Studies’ Public Policy and Economics Program.

Nathan is a rising senior at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, where he studies Philosophy and Political Science. He is a Content Editor for Ball State’s international undergraduate philosophy journal, Stance, which has been awarded the American Philosophical Association/Philosophy Documentation Center Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs, the American Scholastic Press Association Award for Best University Journal, and the Ball State University Immersive Learning Award.

“Freedom of speech is one of several inalienable rights, and it was acknowledged as such by our founders, who placed it deliberately outside the realm of government intervention with the drafting of the First Amendment. This right is not a privilege to be granted, revoked, or tampered with. It is a liberty that we enjoy purely by virtue of our humanity. I am grateful and extremely excited for the opportunity to work with an organization dedicated to safeguarding our ability to freely criticize and discuss our nation’s most powerful leaders and most sensitive issues,” Nathan said.

We are very excited to work with Nathan this summer and look forward to his contributions to our media outreach as well as his original insights on political speech issues. Please join us in welcoming Nathan to our growing team!