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Hi! I'm Nick Visscher, principal owner of Spotlight Impact Data Design, an independent design consultancy based in Seattle. My greatest joy is helping people turn their data into visually engaging visualizations, reports, and presentation slides. I have nearly 20 years of interdisciplinary experience working in visitor-serving organizations like museums, zoos, aquariums and in higher education leading graduate coursework in museum audience research and evaluation. In addition to data design, I'm also a program evaluator with experience in cultural orgs like museums, zoos, and aquariums. I'm the past chair of the Visitor Studies Association’s Zoo & Aquarium Focused Interest Group (ZAFIG), serve on the editorial board of Visitor Studies journal published by Taylor & Francis, and a member of the American Evaluation Association, Seattle Evaluation Association, Visitor Studies Association, and the Presentation Guild. I'm a Certified Presentation Specialist (CPS)™ with PowerPoint® proficiency through the Presentation Guild and in 2025, I received a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP award for contributions to the PowerPoint community. 🎉