Misty Crooks

Misty is a civic design researcher at Center for Civic Design. She uses community-based knowledge to build paths to inclusion and access by developing deep understandings of people and their worlds through ethnography. 

In addition to her work at Center for Civic Design, Misty has experience building strategy with voting rights groups, working as a design researcher in edtech, and teaching English as a Second Language. She earned an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts Boston with a thesis on the use of language to create exclusion in courtroom trials. She is currently a PhD candidate in anthropology. Her dissertation focuses on barriers to access and decision-making power in New York City electoral politics. 

Outside of work, you will find Misty at various dance and music performances, adding to her list of NYC restaurants to try, or reading in a coffee shop.