Nathaniel Popper, 28, has been a staff reporter at the Forward, America's national Jewish newspaper, since 2003. Nathaniel grew up in Pittsburgh and was an undergraduate at Harvard College, where he wrote for Let's Go travel guides and the Harvard International Review. After college, he spent a year in Berlin, as a DAAD fellow, studying German literature and writing for American newspapers. Since coming to the Forward, Nathaniel has worked both on investigative projects and on cultural reporting about the constantly changing currents of American Jewish life.