Crystal Bryson-Obrer is currently the CSBG Grant Contract Coordinator for Louisville Metro Government's Office of Resilience and Community Services. She made the jump to the social sector after a decade-long career in the service industry, and has since worked in youth development, academia, eviction prevention, and Latinx service access until landing her current role in Community Action. She spent almost 5 years as volunteer and development coordinator for the Louisville-based nonprofit La Casita Center, where she developed orientations and trainings on cultural humility, allyship and mutual aid, instituted an emergency COVID-19 food delivery network, and laid the foundation for a comprehensive volunteer program. Currently, her work with volunteers includes acting as the staff-board coordinator for RCS’s advisory board. She also is the chair for Louisville Public Media’s community advisory board. When not working, she loves being a volunteer herself, reading cozy mysteries, and taking bad photos of beautiful things. She has a passion for infusing hospitality and joy into the everyday, for workers' dignity and rights, and for normalizing excessive exclamation points in professional emails.