Crystal Huff

Experience

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  Boston Children's Hospital

  Jan 2007 - Sept 2010

  Administrative Assistant/Office Manager

  Served the Division of Molecular Medicine, working under three principal investigators and two senior staff.Helped craft million-dollar budgets and reports for NIH grants. Managed the application process, budget allocations, reimbursement processes through the central CHB office, and editing of reports before submission.Partnered with staff concerning employee reviews, recruitment, terminations, and payroll. Responsible for all PeopleSoft transactions for the division as well as compliance with all hospital policies.Helped foster group camaraderie and better formal and informal group communications through weekly "tea time," at which members of the laboratory competed with each other on whose cookies and scones were the most divine. Show less

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  Harvard University

  Mar 2011 - Jul 2011

  Office Manager

  Responsible for managing daily details of the office: maintaining calendars, updating institute files, website maintenance, purchasing orders, reimbursement requests. Managed email lists and assisted with internal communications of the Institute.Contributor to HR processes: triaging candidates for full-time positions, oversight of postdoctoral students, coordination of visiting scholars.

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  Harvard Business School

  Jan 2012 - Jun 2012

  Staff Assistant III

  Responsible for internal communications between HBS professors and Research Staff Services, primarily on matters of student participation. Coordinated with other staff assistants to ensure shift coverage and job satisfaction within the team.This position involved being paid to audit the first-year courses at Harvard Business School, which was very informative and beneficial.

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  Luminoso Inc.

  Apr 2012 - Apr 2014

  Chief Coherence Officer

  This position was a collage of several functions -- head of Human Resources, office manager, project manager, scrum master, contract negotiator, personal assistant, chief cook, and bottle washer.I helped transition Luminoso from 6 to 24 employees, and laid groundwork for my position to be split into 3 different jobs as well as recruitment to continue for an additional 8 positions after my departure.I was responsible for the creation, tracking, and cohering of our hiring processes. We attracted a diverse, talented applicant pool with a 100% retention rate of those hired. (I was the first employee to leave the company.)I crafted our performance reviews process, our compensation budget, and our professional development plans.I wrote most of the employee handbook, a living document compliant with state and federal law while still reflecting the core values of the company. This included a progressive gender-neutral parental leave policy with generous pay, a guideline for vacation time, a team 360 feedback process, and more traditional review process with management.Thanks to my efforts, we also had employee benefits prioritized by employees, which ranged from health and dental to bicycle benefits and fitness reimbursement.I worked with management and employees to initiate new training and development activities, onboard new hires, and resolve employee relations and performance concerns.I functioned as the project manager for development goals, the representative of management for contract negotiations, and the accounts manager for client communications. I helped coordinate Luminoso's participation in events as large as SXSW and as intimate as the college hiring fair down the street. I was instrumental in two investment rounds Luminoso landed.I lent organization to company processes as often as possible, helped keep the company on task, watched the calendars of the entire team, smoothed things over when needed, and facilitated caffeine consumption. Show less

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  Worldcon 75

  Oct 2012 - Jan 2017

  Convention Co-Chair

  I served as co-chair for the World Science Fiction Convention ("Worldcon") to take place in Helsinki, Finland in August of 2017. This project involved monthly (and sometimes weekly) participation in international events, team coordination, and task management. I served on the executive board of this endeavor since 2012. I worked to coordinate 200+ volunteers in 27 countries during the bid phase, then 5000+ volunteer staff after winning the vote in 2015. Early on, my tasks were to manage recruitment and onboarding of staff, the early marketing plan, and donor relationships in North America. I managed marketing efforts in concert with key public influencers and supporters. My areas of oversight on the convention staff were DevOps, Finance, Hospitality, Member Services, Outreach/Marketing, Staff Services, Exhibits, and the WSFS division.I also spoke on an average of 12 panels per year internationally concerning topics such as safety, diversity, codes of conduct, volunteer coordination, and anti-racism training. While this is not a part of the usual conchair job description, it is important social justice work that I did for this organization and the community in general. Show less

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  The Ada Initiative

  Mar 2015 - May 2015

  Executive Director

  Advocating for women in technology, open source, and geek culture; committed to anti-harassment efforts. Fundraising, management, leadership, educational, strategic, and program development responsibilities. Public speaking and social media work. International, intersectional outreach. Featured speaker at international conferences as well as a collaborative contributor to grassroots efforts in the UK, Finland, Trinidad, Canada, and across the USA.

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  Freelance

  Jan 2017 - now

  Editor

  For the past few years, I have been an editor of science fiction as a part-time role. This includes being the sole editor of the publication Recognize Fascism (out from World Weaver Press in 2020), co-editor of Resist Fascism (out from Crossed Genres Publications in 2018), and an associate editor of various publications translated between Chinese and English for the Future Affairs Administration in Beijing (a science fiction publishing and media company). I have also taken on select projects that are not yet published, as an editor and sensitivity reader. Show less

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  Include Better

  Jan 2017 - now

  Executive Director

  Include Better is a small company working to make geek and tech spaces more inclusive by dismantling oppressive tools of the kyriarchy. We do this primarily with facilitated conversations, workshops, talks, and the occasional editorial, essay, or blog post.My role at IB as Executive Director and cofounder involves the vision as well as the implementation -- chief cook and bottle-washer.