Hailing from Chicago, Nick is of modest personality working as a visual and web/interface designer. When not designing, he co-facilitates Chicago Deaf and DeafBlind in Tech (CD2BIT), a working group at ChiHackNight, which is a weekly event for civic engagement and technology, and helps run Confa11y, an open-source website helping people find tech conferences that are accessible and accommodating. Also, himself being deaf/hard-of-hearing, he serves as a trustee for the Chicago Chapter of the Illinois Association of the Deaf (IAD), a civil rights organization working to advance social, educational, and economic well-being of the deaf and hard of hearing citizens.