Padraig Nash has worked in the field of education for over twenty-five years, as a teacher, teaching-artist, researcher, consultant, program director, designer, and learning engineer.

He has a PhD in the Learning Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he built virtual internships to teach young people how to see and solve problems in the ways that professional communities do, and developed innovative ways to understand mentoring processes and measure professional thinking.

He has been working in the Ed Tech space (Amplify, Cengage, Udemy) for the last 10 years as a learning design leader, helping companies improve their products so they are better for learners (i.e. lead to learning outcomes).