Nathan Rudder

Institutional Philanthropy Officer Senior, Doctoral Student

Nathan Rudder has served as the Director of Philanthropy for the UK College of Education since 2023. A native Kentucky from Laurel County, Nathan earned his BA in German from UK in 2009. He earned his MPA in Environmental Science and Policy at Columbia University in 2011, going on to work in program management and fundraising at Columbia and Rockefeller University. As a PhD student in Education Leadership, Nathan's is interested in studying how fundraising priorities are established at an institutional level in higher education.