Crystal Moore leads a cross-functional team and focuses on expanding Karat’s Black Brilliant Minds program’s impact and building strategic partnerships across industries. Before joining Karat, Moore served as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at Strategic Education, Inc., a publicly-traded education technology company. Previously, she was a White House Fellow as part of the White House Domestic Policy Council, leading stakeholder engagement among HBCU leaders for the President’s domestic policy agenda. Prior to the White House, she served as Senior Director of Business Development for Fullbridge, Inc., a venture-backed education technology company. Her efforts at Fullbridge supported the creation of online and blended-learning programs on college campuses, ensuring over 12,000 students have exposure to career readiness skills. Before Fullbridge, Moore was a management consultant at Parthenon-EY, where she advised colleges and universities, national foundations, policy organizations, and private investment firms. Her commitment to the education sector began as a ProInspire fellow at D.C. public schools which led her to intern for the White House Domestic Policy Council’s education policy team.

A graduate of Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and Xavier University of Louisiana, Moore is a third-generation HBCU alum. She lives in Jackson, MS, and is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the Council for Foreign Relations, the women’s networking organization CHIEF, and a former participant in INROADS, a partner of Brilliant Black Minds that creates pathways to careers for diverse high school and college students.