Nicole Kelner
Founder at Free Time: the Mindful Screen Time app
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNicole Kelner is a founder and creative entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building mission-driven ventures at the intersection of climate, art, and mindful technology. She launched multiple ventures—from an e-commerce brand featured by major outlets to a coding education startup that taught 2,500 K–12 students and exited via acquisition—and now runs Arts and Climate Change and Free Time, a mindful screen-time app. Her work blends visual storytelling (books, commissioned climate art for DOE and The Guardian) with community growth—she grew a Substack to 3K subscribers and a Twitter following to 15K within a year. Nicole pairs operational rigor (Chief of Staff and Head of Operations roles) with creative program design, leading workshops for Harvard and The Climate Museum. Based in New York, she leverages honors training in communications and engineering entrepreneurship to translate climate solutions into accessible cultural products. An unexpected throughline in her career is using offline experiences and art as scalable climate action, turning calm and imagination into practical advocacy.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Communications, Schreyer Honors College: Honors in Engineering Entrepreneurship, Communications, Schreyer Honors College: Honors in Engineering Entrepreneurship at Penn State UniversityEntrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship at Novancia Business School ParisExecutive Program, Social Impact Strategy: Ending Violence & Abuse in Relationships, Executive Program, Social Impact Strategy: Ending Violence & Abuse in Relationships at University of Pennsylvania
English, French
Github Skills (9)
animation10
javascript9
hosting5
docker4
statistics1
chrome1
visualize1
chrome-extension1
react1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nicolekelner/nicolekelner.github.io
May 2015 - Feb 2023
hosting
Contributions:10 PRs, 166 pushes, 8 branches in 7 years 10 months
hostingdocker
succulentsexed/Succulent
Apr 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:8 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
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