Nick Jehlen is Creative Director of the Action Mill, a consultant group that works with activist organizations to develop direct actions, events, websites and other tools to build organizing power.

Over the past 15 years, with his Action Mill partner Jethro Heiko, Nick has helped conceive and implement direct actions including large-scale image projections, parody websites, building banners and mass mobilizations. He was the Creative Director and co-founder of Turn Your Back on Bush, an action organized through the web, email, text messaging and phone calls, that brought over 5,000 people from 47 states to Bush's second term inaugural parade, with simultaneous actions in Mexico, Brussels, and London.

Nick developed and leads the Enough Fear campaign, which seeks to build bridges between people in Iran and the US. The Enough Fear website collects user-submitted photos of Iranians and Americans standing together for peaceful negotiations. In late 2007, the Enough Fear campaign began holding a series of events in public spaces in the US where people are invited to use red, old-fashioned phones to talk directly to volunteers in Iran. The Enough Fear campaign was developed in consultation with Iranian bloggers, and Iranian volunteers are recruited through social networking sites. This campaign has been covered extensively in both the US and Iran, and was discussed in an article in the New Yorker.

In 2006, Nick designed, developed, and relaunched the website for Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), and since then he has worked with the group as webmaster and strategic consultant. The Action Mill led a series of strategic nonviolence trainings around the US with members and leaders of IVAW to help them develop a strategy for ending the war in Iraq, and continues to consult on leadership development, organizing support, and special projects.

This year, Nick was part of the organizing team for Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan, a project of IVAW which brought together veterans and active duty servicemembers to give testimony about the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Nick worked with the team setting up roles, coaching team leaders, and managing the website and online video for the event, including over 30 hours of live broadcast and an archive of on-demand video.

Independently, Nick was the designer of the logo and website for Billionaires for Bush, and with the Action Mill he designed and developed the websites for the Bring Them Home Now bus tour, America Stands Watch, Alternatives for Community and Environment and a variety of other political and community groups.

Nick has been the art director of The Progressive magazine since 1999. Prior to that, he was the art director at Boston Review and an interactive designer at WGBH in Boston. His work has been recognized by Communication Arts, Print magazine, How magazine and The Society of Publication Designers.