Crystal Patterson
Crystal Patterson is a Government & Politics Outreach Manager with Facebook. As a senior level communications and political professional, Patterson has extensive experience in strategic communications, including earned and paid media, new media, social networking, rapid response and crisis communications, as well as fundraising and development communications, polling, research and activist engagement. Prior to her years with Facebook, Patterson was the communications director at the Center for American Progress, the communications director for the U.S. Congress, managing director with Petel & Co., a political consulting firm, and a strategic communications specialist with the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees.