[Community-Service] Seminar Lineup of Heroes

[Jeanetta price]

“You can’t be the only superhero around here. I can do that too!” You go diva! Tap into your resource s they possess superpowers. Just ask Krystle, she beholds the power to share resources anywhere and everywhere. Her extraordinary ability to engage, educate and empower others to embrace their abilities and shoot for the stars! We are overwhelmed with excitement to have such a vibrate and motivated superhero on our lineup for seminar, Thursday, July 16, 2020 at 1pm.

Krystle Allen is a Newark, New Jersey native. She is a millennial entrepreneur and non-profiteer who is no stranger to work that involves community development, social change, and grassroots efforts. She is presently employed with the New Jersey Commission For the Blind and Visually Impaired under the Department of Human Services in the role of the community outreach specialist. Prior to her current employment, she served as a second term AmeriCorps Vista member with a non-profit organization known as the  Girls Scouts Heart of New Jersey located in Montclair, NJ. There Krystle worked to develop volunteer programming, reuniting daughters in the girl scouts troops with their incarcerated mothers, and building troops under their Juliette's House transitional housing program. Krystle served her first Americorps VISTA term during the winter of 2017 for the Jewish Renaissance Medical Center located in Newark and Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Here she assumed the role of the marketing planning and development coordinator with the medical center. Her responsibilities held a strong influence on her professional development in the areas of social media marketing, network building, sponsorship acquisition, and planning/developing the organization's small and large scale programs and events. Krystle's service as an AmeriCorps Vista member followed a year's commitment to be a part of the fabric that recruits positive change in underserved communities.
 
Simultaneously, Krystle serves as the founder and president of a growing non-profit organization in the city of Newark called Eyes Like Mine Inc. Eyes Like Mine Inc. has a mission to share awareness about the abilities and potential of individuals with vision loss through community service initiatives, comprehensive empowerment workshops, and innovative social change awareness events. Krystle has served on the access committee of the Jersey City non-profit organization Art House Productions Inc for the past four years. She has been a board member of Young Non-Profit Professionals Network of New Jersey since the start of 2018 and a past board member with Community Lifestyle Inc. Krystle's introduction to the non-profit sector began when working with the Montclair YMCA for eight years in the extended care program.
 
In addition to her involvement with the community, Krystle is a disability advocate for disability rights and against injustices. During the 2020 Covid19 pandemic, she began serving with Governor Murphy's disability task force to address areas that affect New Jersey's disabled residents. Additionally, Krystle is serving as a member of Mayor Baraka's economic reopening advisory council. She continues to advocate within the state's Personal Preference Assistance Program advisory council to contribute to policy management toward the functioning of NJ residents who receive personal care assistants. Although her work is just at its beginning stages, Krystle is building a reputation of accolades from both local and government levels.


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