Political Scientist. Satirist. Filmmaker.
Nate Clark is a political scientist and PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at UCLA, where he studies political communication, public opinion, and political psychology in American politics.
His research employs experiments, causal inference, and mixed methods to explore how media shapes political attitudes — including how short-form video influences opinions on immigration enforcement, how the public responds to costly climate adaptation policies, and how comedy and political culture have evolved in the Trump era. At Harvard, he was an affiliate of the Center for American Political Studies, where he studied media framing and public opinion on homelessness and housing policy.
Before entering academia, Clark spent two decades as an independent creative professional working with global brands including Louis Vuitton, Cartier, and the New York Times — experience that informs his research on media, persuasion, and public opinion. He holds a Master of Liberal Arts in Extension Studies in Government from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Florida State University.