About Me

Kristy Crouse was born and raised in Oklahoma and studied Finance and Economics at Oklahoma State University. While working on her minor in Spanish, she studied in Mexico before moving to Japan to complete her honors thesis on the role of women in the Japanese labor market. After college, she worked as a strategic consultant with companies in the U.S., Central America, and Africa and earned an MBA at Harvard Business School. At Harvard she became interested in social enterprise and worked with a hospital and a chicken farm in Costa Rica before graduating and returning to consulting in the U.S. and Europe.

 

Determined to work in a way that created more social change, she moved to the nonprofit sector where she was the founding Executive Director of an aid-based organization and later the interim CEO of a nonprofit museum. She is an experienced writer and public speaker, and her poetry and creative nonfiction can be found in literary journals. In 2025, Michigan Quarterly Review named her a finalist for the Laurence Goldstein Prize in Poetry. Based in the Pacific Northwest, she enjoys spending time with her family, cooking plant-based food, and adventures near and far.

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