Crystallee Crain

Ms Crystallee Crain is leader, educator, writer, activist and small business owner.<br><br> In addition to being the founding Director of <a title="" href="http://www.digmeventures.com/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">digmeventures</span></a> Ms Crain is committed to her community and the people around her. This work allows her creativity, love of people power and energy towards creating and sustaining a community driven, justice oriented for-profit entity.<br><br>Crain has a decade of experience and has had many successes in the leadership development, teaching, learning and writing. Her journalism experience started when she was 16-years old writing for daily newspapers in Michigan. <br><br><span></span>Since then she has been committed to the access of quality, truth based information and education, in comparison to our power and oppression based system of history and learning. Her teaching practice is through the lens of critical pedagogy and critical race studies.<br><br><span></span>Ms Crain organizes, educates and trains individuals using methods in popular education, community based research and community engagement in and outside of the classroom. She deeply understands the connection between self, society and the impassioned spirit as it relates to our connection to others and our desire to make change.<br><br><span></span>Crystallee is a Phd (cand.) working towards a Doctorate of Philosophy in Transformative Studies at the <a title="" href="http://www.ciis.edu/">California Institute of Integral Studies</a> in San Francisco. She holds a Master of Arts in Social Sciences (Sociology), and a Bachelors in Political Science. In January 2011 she received the Norman Lear Award from People for the American Way <a title="" href="http://youngpeoplefor.org/">(Young People For</a>).&nbsp; In 2011 she was published in Women in Todays World, a multimedia encyclopedia on women's issues in the 21st Century. Crystallee is on the board of <a title="" href="http://onelifeinstitute.org/" target="_blank">OneLife Institute</a> and spends time volunteering at the <a title="" href="http://www.prisonersliteratureproject.com/">Prisoners Literature Project.</a><br>&nbsp;<br>A major theme is Crystallee's work is to support the individual and community promise of healing by translating pain into power. This is a testament to her own personal experience that has guided her spiritually and methods of creating peace.

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