Team Member

Crystal Des-Ogugua (she/her/hers) is the Donor Education Manager at Thousand Currents. A creative learning strategist and a curriculum designer who has experience in developing innovative educational programming, toolkits, and curricula, Crystal’s work is rooted in the intersections between liberatory education and creative community building, specifically within communities of Black women, girls, and gender expansive folk. By way of curriculum development and facilitation, she uplifts alternative ways of being and uses education spaces as opportunities to learn from the frameworks of community histories deeply tied to legacies of both resilience and dispossession. Crystal enjoys long walks with her dog Peanut, archiving Black oral history projects, and crocheting.