About Me

Kristy Crouse was born and raised in Oklahoma and studied Finance and Economics at Oklahoma State University. During college, she studied and lived in Mexico and Japan. After graduation, she worked as a strategic consultant for executives at Fortune 50 companies in the U.S., Central America, and Africa. She earned her MBA at Harvard Business School and worked with a hospital and a chicken farm in Costa Rica before graduating and returning to consulting in the U.S. and Europe.

 

Kristy eventually moved to the nonprofit sector and was the co-founder and Executive Director of an aid-based organization, the interim CEO of a nonprofit museum, and a social sector investor for a philanthropist's family office. She is an experienced writer and public speaker, and her poetry and creative nonfiction can be found in literary journals including Variant Literature and Kestrel. In 2025, Michigan Quarterly Review named her a finalist for the Laurence Goldstein Prize in Poetry.

 

Based in the Pacific Northwest, Kristy enjoys spending time with her family, cooking plant-based food, and adventures near and far.

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