Crystal Brown is a public relations and communications veteran and spent her career developing PR and communications strategies for a number of corporate, non-profit and foundation clients.  She currently serves as vice president of the education practice at Widmeyer Communications where she manages multiple education clients and teams.  In this role she also oversees strategy for the firm’s largest client, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.  Brown is recognized for delivering solid strategic counsel, high-impact results and creative media and social media campaigns.  Her broad range of expertise includes PR, marketing communications, digital media, public affairs and crisis communications.

Prior to Widmeyer Communications, Brown served as the senior vice president of Marketing Communications for E-Luminate Group, a marketing and PR firm specializing in education technology and education policy.  In this role, Brown oversaw the communications practice, including profit and loss and the delivery of communications services across accounts.  During her tenure, she successfully raised the national profile of many long-term clients, including the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, Dell, LeapFrog, Blackboard, NEA Member Benefits, The Institute for Museums & Library Services, 3M and the National Council on the Aging.

She is a graduate of the University of Virginia, where she received her bachelor’s degree in Rhetoric and Communications Skills.  Brown enjoys travelling, reading and spending time with her husband Michael and their two young children, Camille and Chase.