While at UW Jon was a STAY tutor in the Seattle Schools and served in the 1970s on the first Disproportionality Task Force for the school system. After law school he served on the Seattle Chamber's Education Committee and became chair organizing his company associates as tutors in the schools. As one of the founders and later chair of the Alliance for Education (and still on the Executive Board), he has been active in support of the Seattle Schools and particularly the Teacher Residency Program.

The issues that Nate is most concerned with as they relate to education and our children are diversity and inclusion. The reason he is so passionate about these issues is that he firmly believes the issues of racism and discrimination, the evil vestiges of slavery, still exist in our country to this day. Those horrific elements, in his opinion, won’t be eliminated by people of his generation or older, rather it is going to be the generations to come. They will hopefully bring about a more understanding and accepting world. So for that reason  he  believes this is where we should put our hope.