In 2001, the four speakers at Brookline High School’s graduation ceremony were former presidential candidate Mike Dukakis, former presidential speechwriter Dick Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, and 17-year-old Nat Jackson.

Since delivering well-received remarks on the “river of life” that day, Nat has written on politics and sports for the Yale Daily News and had his essays published in The Academic Writer’s Handbook. More recently, he co-wrote a blog about the New England Patriots for AOL’s website.

Nat graduated from Yale University in 2005 with a degree in history. He lives in Washington D.C. with a roommate and four fish that were all alive this morning.