Profile

Krystal has an undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois. She earned an MA from the SOJC concurrently with a JD from the UO Law School. She worked as an attorney in Washington state, as well as serving as a professor and program director at Central Washington University. Her research interests center on media coverage of gun violence, particularly how criminogenic media affects those with predispositions to crime, as well as those without criminal histories, to commit violent crimes.