Political Scientist. Satirist. Author.

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 focuses on how media shapes political attitudes — including the influence of short-form video on immigration enforcement opinions, public responses to climate adaptation policy, and the intersection of comedy and political culture 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 from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Florida State University.