Nate Drag is the Great Lakes Literacy Specialist for New York Sea Grant and the Associate Director of the Great Lakes Program at the University at Buffalo. In these roles, Nate serves as the Great Lakes Leader of Coastal Literacy for New York Sea Grant by developing and implementing a research-based extension program on a Great Lakes basin, national, and binational basis. Nate has a Masters in Urban Planning from the Univerisity at Buffalo and B.A. in Political Science from the State University of New York, College at Potsdam.