She leads Campaign for Southern Equality’s Rapid Response Initiative addressing the first 100 days of the new administration. Additionally, she works with the LGBTQ Rights Toolkit and Legal Equality Project. A proud graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Crystal graduated with a dual major in French and Political Science. From there, she continued her studies at the Charlotte School of Law. Crystal is a guardian ad litem and enjoys volunteering for a number of LGBTQ and civil rights organizations in the South. Crystal brings experience in political organizing and campaign strategizing to her work at CSE. Crystal lives with her partner, Miranda McDowell and their fur babies (dogs) in Charlotte, North Carolina, but travels across the South to provide training and education on LGBTQ issues and on advocating against ongoing efforts to enact anti-LGBTQ legislation.