Recent Highlights
AskCA, California’s AI assistant
Designer and researcher at Nava PBC. I lead research, write system instructions, and run evals for California’s public AI assistant, announced by Governor Newsom in 2026.
First designer at Saildrone
Designer and researcher at Nava PBC. I lead research, write system instructions, and run evals for California’s public AI assistant, announced by Governor Newsom in 2026.
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
Redesigned CMS.gov (Medicaid + Medicare)
Redesigned CMS.gov (Medicaid + Medicare)
Led redesign of CMS.gov (2m visitors per month), resulting in improved navigation (reduced essential clicks by 50%), search functionality, and site accessibility (nearly 100% scores); Redesign won 2024 Web Excellence Award for Government
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 stakeholder
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