Nathaniel Kerksick
Designer & Advisor at nategk.co
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathaniel Kerksick is a design leader and advisor with 12 years of product-focused experience translating human-centered research into high-impact digital products and teams. As founding designer at Change.org and a Design Lead at Facebook, he scaled design organizations and shipped work that drove measurable civic and social outcomes—campaign wins every hour and $2B raised on platform. He led product design strategy at Dropbox, helped shape early-stage startups through Sequoia’s Arc, and now partners with founders to accelerate product-market fit at nategk.co. His background spans political campaigns (designing Obama’s 2008 online ads), agency art direction, and teaching civic design, giving him a rare mix of creative, operational, and civic-minded perspectives. Having lived and worked across nine cities in four countries, he blends global cultural fluency with practical studio discipline. Expect a hands-on advisor who moves quickly from research to prototype to measurable growth.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Macromedia Certification Flash Director, Macromedia Certification Flash Director at Think Innovative MediaNon-degree Liberal Studies, Non-degree Liberal Studies at Georgetown UniversityInteractive Art Director Commercial and Advertising Art, Interactive Art Director Commercial and Advertising Art at Hyper IslandBTEC Interdisciplinary Multimedia, BTEC Interdisciplinary Multimedia at Westminster Kingsway College
English, SpanishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
culturegraphic/ideapp
Oct 2013 - May 2019
Ultralight-touch ideation app
Contributions:53 commits, 1 push in 5 years 7 months
touchultralightideation
nategk/postyourvote
Jun 2020 - Nov 2024
Getting out the vote since 2020 also only in 2020
Contributions:22 PRs, 107 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 5 months
pythonvote
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