Recent Highlights
First designer at Saildrone
Led design team process from discovery to implementation, including scaling a new React-based design system across 4 data-intensive web apps and designing new, business critical features
Launched Work On Ocean
A database for exploring ocean climate ocean solutions; led a team of Climatebase Fellows for our capstone project
Climate Week Design Facilitator for Ocean Events
Co-facilitated ocean and sea level rise design workshop for San Francisco 2024 Climate Week (at Sofar Ocean!) and NYC Climate Week with 100+ diverse stakeholders
Redesigned CMS.gov (Medicaid + Medicare)
Led redesign of CMS.gov (2m visitors per month), resulting in improved navigation (reduced essential clicks by 42%), search functionality, and site accessibility (nearly 100% scores); Redesign won 2024 Web Excellence Award for Government
Awards & Media
• Web Excellence Award for Government for CMS.gov redesign, 2024
• Rising Together – Software that Empowers the Community, UMBC Magazine 2021
• UMBC's Rising Star Young Alumni Award, Oct 2019
• Empathy and Compassion — Alumni Award Winners Take on Public Health Challenges, UMBC Magazine 2019
• "Kelsey Krach: The Optimist", IE University "Disrupters" Campaign, 2018
• IE Master in Visual Digital Media Saffron Best Student Award, 2016
• "On The Front Lines Of The Overdose Epidemic In Baltimore" Buzzfeed, photos, 2016