Nate Tinbite is a 19-year-old from Montgomery County, Maryland. Nate got elected as the Student Member of the Montgomery Board of Education, garnering 74% (~53,700 votes) in April of 2019. He previously served as the President of the Montgomery County Student Government Association, leading the district's 163,000 students to fight for English Language Learner program funding and frank classroom discussions of implicit bias.
Nate is also one of the founding members of Montgomery County Students for Change, an advocacy organization that, in 2018, led a 5k+ student walkout to the steps of the US Capital to protest gun violence. He also stood on the stage of the national March for Our Lives in Washington, DC.
In early 2018, he co-led a district-wide high school voter registration drive that registered 3k+ high school students in 4 weeks and has been working in Maryland's state legislature to pass a law mandating at least one voter registration drive in every Maryland high school annually.
Now that the Supreme Court has dismantled a core gun safety law in Maryland, the state needs to rebuild. Matt Post, Brenna Levitan, Michael Solomon and I argue that Maryland must legislate faster, bolder, & more creatively than they did before in today’s Washington Post: