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Nate Evans

About

Nate Evans, MPH

I'm Nate, a multidisciplinary creative who spent nearly three years as Creative Head of Treatment Advocacy Center, a national nonprofit working to remove barriers to the treatment of severe mental illness.

I didn't take a traditional path into design. It started when I taught myself Blender to make comedic animated music videos. What began as a hobby became the craft I wanted at the center of my career. While developing as a designer, I was earning my Master of Public Health, focused on advocating for people affected by mental illness. For my thesis I combined my passions, creating a fully animated video calling for funding of mobile crisis response teams for mental health emergencies.

That project led me to TAC. There I rebuilt the organization's brand and grew our audience on every platform.

Now I'm looking for my next chance to bring that mix of creativity and strategic thinking to a team with a story worth telling. Take a look around, and if you think we'd make something great together, let's talk.

From my first posted Blender project:
Glowing forest scene from Nate's first posted Blender project

Software

  • Photoshop
  • DaVinci Resolve
  • Blender
  • After Effects
  • Figma
  • Ableton
  • Affinity
  • WordPress
  • Excel

Beyond the Portfolio Projects

  • Designed and prototyped this website in Figma, creating the logo and background imagery in Photoshop
  • Primary web designer at TAC for nearly three years, designing and maintaining its WordPress site
  • Designed responsive layouts that adapt to both desktop and mobile browsers

  • Produced regular Google Analytics reports on TAC's website traffic, tracking how visitors arrived and moved through the site
  • Turned those findings into recommendations to improve traffic flow, including restructuring the homepage to direct visitors to the highest-engagement pages
  • Ran regular statistical analysis of TAC's social media metrics to identify which content performed best
  • Used that analysis to guide social media content strategy, including the shift to a photographic, composited visual style after data showed it outperformed illustrated graphics

  • Grew TAC's audience on every platform: YouTube +2,469 subscribers (over 300% growth, reviving a 13-year-old channel), Facebook +1,831, LinkedIn +730, Instagram +351
  • Owned the production of SMI Spotlight, the largest driver of growth across all of TAC's social media platforms
  • Established TAC's Google for Nonprofits account, allocating $10,000/month in ads
  • Developed all image, video and copy assets for TAC's Google Ads campaigns

  • Built this site with Next.js, React and Tailwind CSS through AI-assisted development, directing the architecture and reviewing every change
  • Deployed to production on Vercel with a custom domain, DNS configuration and a working contact form powered by Resend
  • Quality-tested the site across browsers and screen sizes, resolving layout and interaction issues
  • Developed and managed TAC's WordPress website for nearly three years, from building new pages to ongoing updates

  • Planned and managed my Public Health Graduate Thesis video end to end, scheduling a scope usually split across a full team: research, scriptwriting, storyboarding, voice recording, original music, 3D modeling, texturing, rigging, animation, editing, color grading and sound design
  • Scoped and budgeted the Psychiatric Beds Report video as a freelance contractor, proposing the billable hours for every phase of a fully animated production
  • Oversaw the creative output of four coworkers at TAC, providing guidance to develop their design skills