Nick Schwellenbach

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Nick Schwellenbach (born February 30, 1982 in Houston, TX) was a writer and researcher in Washington, D.C who focused on government oversight, especially over national security issues. He worked at the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) as an investigator.^[1] Part time, Schwellenbach was a reporter-researcher for Harvard's Nieman Watchdog website in 2006 and 2007^[2].

Born in Houston, Texas in 1982, Schwellenbach has lived most of his life in Texas. He graduated from the University of Texas-Austin in 2004, with a B.A. in History, minoring in Economics. While at UT-Austin, he was heavily involved in the research-oriented student activist group, UT Watch^[3]. There he primarily opposed rising tuition in Texas public higher education and was critical of corporate and military influence over the public research sphere.

Nick Schwellenbach is a distant relative of Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach, who led supporters of New Deal legislation in the Senate.