Nathan Kelber
Senior Educator
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Kelber is a senior educator and education manager with nine years of experience helping higher education institutions build AI literacy, program development, and internal research capacity. Based in Detroit, he blends a humanities PhD background with hands-on data science and NLP practice, making technical concepts accessible to academic audiences. At ITHAKA/Constellate he develops curriculum and community cohorts while contributing practical code—improving Constellate notebooks for the Digital Scholar Workbench to bridge pedagogy and tooling. His roles span digital scholarship, community engagement, and classroom teaching, enabling him to translate institutional needs into scalable learning programs. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful instructional design informed by real-world text analysis workflows and a rare combination of literary training and computational fluency.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College ParkMA, English, MA, English at Loyola University of ChicagoBS, English and Mathematics for Secondary Education, BS, English and Mathematics for Secondary Education at Eastern Michigan University
Github Skills (4)
jupyter-notebook10
python10
data-analysis8
documentation7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ithaka/constellate-notebooks
Nov 2019 - Nov 2022
These Jupyter notebooks were created by ITHAKA for Constellate and last updated in June 2025. They should run in a local instance of Jupyter. Constellate was sunset on July 1st 2025. You can find select class videos on our Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@Constellate_org that go with the notebooks.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 484 commits, 22 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily contributed to the Constellate notebooks repository by adding the WelcomeTDM.ipynb notebook and adding functionality to existing notebooks for use with the Digital Scholar Workbench. Specifically, the user integrated Python to make changes to the code and content, with an emphasis on examples. This effort demonstrates the user's focus on improving and expanding the functionality of the notebooks to be used with the Digital Scholar Workbench.
gojupyterjupyter-notebookyoutubeithaka-owner-labs
nkelber/tapi2021
May 2021 - Jan 2022
A website for the 2021 Text Analysis Pedagogy Institute
Contributions:30 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 7 months
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