Leadership
Crystallee Crain Ph.D. (she/her/hers) is an interdisciplinary public health scholar and human rights activist. She has academic roots in sociology, political science, and psychology. She specializes in exposing the layers of institutional inequality while supporting communities to shift ways of being and practice to improve life chances by bridging the worlds of academia, healing, and advocacy. Crystallee’s body of work represents a collective need to strengthen our responses to violence through transformative means, the need for liberatory practices, and a focus on healing as a revolutionary strategy for change. Crystallee holds an academic appointment with California State University – East Bay in the Department of Political Science and at Simmons University in the Masters of Public Health Program (Health Equity). She’s also the elected board chair of the Seeding Justice Foundation (PDX). Crystallee is the Founder & Principal Consultant of Prevention at the Intersections, which works to prevent violence and other forms of harm through community-based research and people-centered projects. At Prevention at the Intersections, she publishes two open-access journals, CATALYST and The Beauty of Black Creation. Recently, the 2nd Edition of her textbook - A People’s Primer: Dispatches on Politics & Social Change (2022), was released.
Dr. Crain facilitates trainings with an emphasis on trauma, prevention science, and community capacity-building. She has worked with organizations across the country to support them in actualizing social justice and people-centered values in the development and implementation of their mission and vision. Clients have included: the Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon (APANO), Justice Outside (California), The Oregon Alliance, San Francisco Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership (SFCIPP), Community Cycling Center, State of California, Clackamas County, University of California, Partnership for a Hunger-Free Oregon, and Dress for Success Oregon.
Crystallee earned a Doctorate of Philosophy in Transformative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA. She holds a Master of Arts in Social Sciences (a concentration in Sociology from Eastern Michigan University), and a Bachelors of Science in Political Science from Northern Michigan University. In 2013 she received executive training in Health and Human Rights from the School of Public Health at Harvard University. Dr. Crain has served as a member of the Alameda County Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention Commission, The City of Portland's Human Rights Commission, and is a current member of the American Psychological Association and the American Evaluation Association.
Dr. Crain facilitates trainings with an emphasis on trauma, prevention science, and community capacity-building. She has worked with organizations across the country to support them in actualizing social justice and people-centered values in the development and implementation of their mission and vision. Clients have included: the Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon (APANO), Justice Outside (California), The Oregon Alliance, San Francisco Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership (SFCIPP), Community Cycling Center, State of California, Clackamas County, University of California, Partnership for a Hunger-Free Oregon, and Dress for Success Oregon.
Crystallee earned a Doctorate of Philosophy in Transformative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA. She holds a Master of Arts in Social Sciences (a concentration in Sociology from Eastern Michigan University), and a Bachelors of Science in Political Science from Northern Michigan University. In 2013 she received executive training in Health and Human Rights from the School of Public Health at Harvard University. Dr. Crain has served as a member of the Alameda County Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention Commission, The City of Portland's Human Rights Commission, and is a current member of the American Psychological Association and the American Evaluation Association.
Through community based research, program development, and training programs - Prevention at the Intersections works to build our collective capacity for effective and just practices.
professional COACHING
INTERNAL SYSTEMS AND VALUES ALIGNMENT EVALUATION
Community Research
TRAINING & CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Community Capacity Building
Program Participant Testimonials
Cultural Humility in Practice Training Evaluation
"Dr. Crain's presentation and teaching style was excellent. She creates an atmosphere that both challenges participants, but also ensures safety. I really valued this training and hope to learn from her again in the future."
"This training provided much-needed guidance about a variety of professional situations I have comes across, and will likely continue to experience. I feel better prepared to act as a disruptor in both my personal and professional lives. It also helped me move forward in an internal conversation about my career path, illuminating my true threshold for approaches to difficult problems that do/do not align with my values. Extremely grateful for Dr. Crain's time and energy. I will continue to pursue any future trainings, lectures, or other works of hers - this is my second training led by Dr. Crain, and I find myself invigorated once more."
Violence Prevention Initiative Certificate Graduate, College of Alameda
Kelvin Potts, Facilitator of A Rites of Passage program, Alameda County Juvenile Probation Department;
Violence Prevention Initiative Certificate Graduate
“The class gave me a wider range of knowledge and information on subject of violence prevention and how extensive it is and how it reaches to every part of the community. Because of the make-up of the people in the class, a wide range of community involved people—from street workers to man whose son was killed—couple of young ladies in the course who were school teachers—that gave me a very good perspective.”
Lidia Habtetsion, Mills College Graduate; Violence Prevention Initiative Certificate Graduate; College of Alameda; Facilitator of Peacemaking Circles for Immigrant Women and Allies
“I went through so much in a short time so that I couldn’t heal and realize how much violence it was. When I went to Crystallee’s class that’s what I realized. I thought my violence was so different than other peoples’. [The class] gave me the strength to read my story out loud. When I said it, that’s when I started healing. Through that I found a lot of people who had experienced similar situations but [our situations] didn’t have to be exactly the same [for us to relate]. And then this experience allowed me to go and help others.”
"Dr. Crain's presentation and teaching style was excellent. She creates an atmosphere that both challenges participants, but also ensures safety. I really valued this training and hope to learn from her again in the future."
"This training provided much-needed guidance about a variety of professional situations I have comes across, and will likely continue to experience. I feel better prepared to act as a disruptor in both my personal and professional lives. It also helped me move forward in an internal conversation about my career path, illuminating my true threshold for approaches to difficult problems that do/do not align with my values. Extremely grateful for Dr. Crain's time and energy. I will continue to pursue any future trainings, lectures, or other works of hers - this is my second training led by Dr. Crain, and I find myself invigorated once more."
Violence Prevention Initiative Certificate Graduate, College of Alameda
Kelvin Potts, Facilitator of A Rites of Passage program, Alameda County Juvenile Probation Department;
Violence Prevention Initiative Certificate Graduate
“The class gave me a wider range of knowledge and information on subject of violence prevention and how extensive it is and how it reaches to every part of the community. Because of the make-up of the people in the class, a wide range of community involved people—from street workers to man whose son was killed—couple of young ladies in the course who were school teachers—that gave me a very good perspective.”
Lidia Habtetsion, Mills College Graduate; Violence Prevention Initiative Certificate Graduate; College of Alameda; Facilitator of Peacemaking Circles for Immigrant Women and Allies
“I went through so much in a short time so that I couldn’t heal and realize how much violence it was. When I went to Crystallee’s class that’s what I realized. I thought my violence was so different than other peoples’. [The class] gave me the strength to read my story out loud. When I said it, that’s when I started healing. Through that I found a lot of people who had experienced similar situations but [our situations] didn’t have to be exactly the same [for us to relate]. And then this experience allowed me to go and help others.”
