Dr. Nathaniel Frank is an award-winning author, historian, journalist, and strategist who is internationally respected for his deployment of academic research to effect meaningful social, political, and personal change. The author of two critically acclaimed books on social policy, his two-decade career in LGBTQ advocacy helped end discrimination in access to military service and marriage, two of the most important civil rights victories of our time. Frank has appeared on TheDaily Show with Jon Stewart, The Rachel Maddow Show, Fresh Air, and elsewhere, and penned multiple op-eds in the New York Times, Washington Post and other top venues, including The Atlantic, Los Angeles Times, Slate and New York Magazine. Frank is currently the director of Cornell's What We Know Project, an initiative that translates academic research for the public and policymakers through writing and placement in high-impact general-interest media. He lives with his husband and their dog in Brooklyn, New York.