Nico Staple

Nico is a designer based in Washington, DC and currently Senior Product Designer at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. In this capacity, he works with teams of philosophers and designers to turn abstract ideas into tangible products. Nico’s work is focused in Ethics Lab, where he works to export innovative ethics curriculum to the masses. This includes the design and development of educational toolkits, online and blended learning modules, and facilitating design thinking workshops for high schoolers to undergraduates to professionals.

Prior to Georgetown, Nico was Co-founder and Design Consultant at Mighty, a strategic design group. In this role, Nico primarily served as a user experience designer and web developer on several large-scale projects for National Geographic.

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