Crystal Carson
Crystal Carson
T2020 North Carolina Participant
Democracy 2.0 Fellow Winner
Crystal Carson was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina on a military base in 1988 and moved to Ancorage, Alaska at the age of three. From a young age Crystal knew she would attend college and started saving pennies in elementary school. Her postsecondary career started in her junior year of high school when she attended Grambling University for a high abilities program where she took her first college courses. One year later, she earned her high school diploma at Robert Service High School, but plans to further her education were put on stand still due to financial struggles.
Crystal took a year to plan for her long-term goals and in 2008, moved to Charlotte North Carolina to pursue her studies at Central Piedmont Community College. Like many other community college students Crystal worked a full time job and did her best to balance classes and extracurricular activities and at one point she took a semester off because she did not have the savings to pay for classes. But, with the connections and support of her advisor and fellow students Crystal hasn’t lost sight of her goal to finish school. Since enrolling, Crystal has served as the co-chair of the Community Service Club and Vice President of the Student Government Association at CPCC. She is also a Target 2020 North Carolina Democracy 2.0 Award winner.
