Crystal Jensen has coordinated and taught technology in rural and urban, public K-12 schools for the past 10+ years. Her focus was connecting empowering communities with technology with the school setting as a focal point. Jensen’s current doctoral research highlights the core issues in the information and communication technology (ICTs) gap experienced by Native Americans, other national and International Indigenous populations, and communities in need, especially those in rural areas.
Crystal currently serves as the founder and president of Integrity Technologies, president of the Pepperdine student chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery, founder of the Community Empowerment Resource Center (CERCle) - Pepperdine, and as vice president and grant coordinator of the East Bay Computer Using Educators. Most recently, she was honored as a 2011-2012 Phi Delta Kappa (PDK) Emerging Leader and 2011-2012 American Indian Graduate Center (AIGC) Fellow.