Nate Birt is a social impact consultant for social impact leaders and communicators. He is the founder of the consulting company Silver Maple Strategies. He is also an embryo adoption advocate and an author.Previously, Birt was a journalist. His work appeared in AOL/Patch.com, the Boonville Daily News, the Boulder Daily Camera, the Columbia Missourian, the Columbia Tribune, Credit Sesame, the Detroit Free Press, ScribbleLive, Social5 and Visual.ly. His first book, “Frozen, But Not Forgotten,” was published in 2019.Birt received his B.J. and M.A. in Journalism and his B.A. in Political Science from the University of Missouri Columbia.