Nik is a landscape conservation and science communications expert who directs the organization's databases, cartography, and geographic information systems to best empower the connection of science and advocacy. Additionally, he leads geospatial science for NPCA's priority national park landscapes work.

Nik works across departments designing new ways to impassion people about park landscapes using high integrity, science-empowered messaging. Nik holds biology and GIS degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (BS), and Virginia Commonwealth University (MS).