Crystal Hendricks-Kretzer, Director of Development and Communications
Crystal is a social sector leader with over 15 years experience spanning the arts, social service, workforce development, and capacity-building fields. Most recently, Crystal served as the Director of Marketing and Communications at the national nonprofit Taproot Foundation, where she built out the organization's first marketing and communications function and collaborated on projects with top Fortune 500 companies. Before Taproot, she managed training and education programs at Jane Addams Resource Corporation and Connections for the Homeless, respectively.
Crystal is a 2018 graduate of the American Express Leadership Academy for nonprofit leaders. She has a B.M. in Music Education from Bowling Green State University and an M.A.M. in Arts Management from Columbia College. She is active in her community and has served on boards of directors for One Tail at a Time Dog Rescue, New Music Chicago, and 20% Theatre Company. When her nose isn't in her laptop, she's an avid musicophile, consumer of all things New Yorker, yarn and hook fanatic, and mom to Buster, the rescue pittie.
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Crystal is a social sector leader with over 15 years experience spanning the arts, social service, workforce development, and capacity-building fields. Most recently, Crystal served as the Director of Marketing and Communications at the national nonprofit Taproot Foundation, where she built out the organization's first marketing and communications function and collaborated on projects with top Fortune 500 companies. Before Taproot, she managed training and education programs at Jane Addams Resource Corporation and Connections for the Homeless, respectively.
Crystal is a 2018 graduate of the American Express Leadership Academy for nonprofit leaders. She has a B.M. in Music Education from Bowling Green State University and an M.A.M. in Arts Management from Columbia College. She is active in her community and has served on boards of directors for One Tail at a Time Dog Rescue, New Music Chicago, and 20% Theatre Company. When her nose isn't in her laptop, she's an avid musicophile, consumer of all things New Yorker, yarn and hook fanatic, and mom to Buster, the rescue pittie.
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