Lachlan Campbell

Lachlan Campbell

Web designer-developer in New York City, they/them

About

Web designer-developer for climate at Watershed. Attending NYU Interactive Media Arts. Previously, web storytelling for Hack Club. 🏳️‍🌈 Ultraqueer/nb 🏳️‍⚧️

Projects

2022

Made a website launching Earth Day showcasing some of the amazing Climate Leads we work with at Watershed. Meghan created the design & illustration, while I built the website with React & MDX.

2021

With the Watershed team, helped build the frontend for our work-from-home carbon emissions calculator on our website.

2019

Founded & led organizing (with 5 co-organizers) for Pennsylvania's largest high school hackathon, raising nearly $15k & attended by 111 students for a weekend in State College, PA in January 2019.

Side Projects

2019

Created/designed/built a website visualizing the gun lobby's funding of U.S. Congress.

Speaking

2019
San Francisco, CA

Organizing hackathons is one of the hardest but most rewarding things I've done. I gave a talk at Hack Club's summit stepping through the core steps & strategy of starting a high school hackathon & sharing tips.

Writing

2022

For Earth Day 2022, we shipped a “Spotify Wrapped for your climate program” for Watershed customers to celebrate their progress. I wrote about the process of designing/building it over one week.

Work Experience

2021 — Now
San Francisco, CA

Starting in February 2021, joined Watershed to work on design & frontend web development to help companies decarbonize.

2017 — 2020
San Francisco, CA

For 3 years, led web/product design/development at Hack Club, a nonprofit network of high school coding clubs & hackathons.

Volunteering

2020 — Now

Co-maintainer of a CSS-in-JS open source project.

2020 — 2021
State College, PA

I worked with my hometown's sustainability coordinator to create a website about her work, including promoting a community survey & forum event, & teaching about how climate change affects our town. Open source.

Education

2019 — Now
New York, NY

Studying Interactive Media Arts at NYU. I took a two-year leave of absence during COVID to work at Watershed, but I'm finishing my second year right now. Expected graduation spring 2025.

Contact

Website
Twitter
GitHub
Instagram

Teams

Current
Watershed Design