Crystal Good @cgoodwoman, she\/her\/hers, is hard to put in just one box. Her preferred titles include artist, advocate, and entrepreneur. Crystal is the founder and publisher of Black by God The West Virginian, a news and storytelling organization centering Black voices in and from West Virginia. She is the author of two poetry collections Valley Girl (2010) and Marking My Territory (2021). <\/p>\n
In addition, Crystal holds the completely made-up but totally-real office of Social Media Senator for the Digital District Of West Virginia, whose platform encourages digital and political literacy with equity. She is a three-time Ted-X Talker, a You Bet Your Life game show winner, a feature and consulting producer on the 2022 \u201cBlack Appalachia\u201d episode United Shades Of America with W. Kamau Bell for CNN. Crystal is a graduate of West Virginia State University (BA Communications), West Virginia Wesleyan (MFA Poetry), and West Virginia University (MA Journalism). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8121,"template":"","meta":{"start_time":0,"end_time":0,"moderators":[],"hashtag":[],"soundcloud":[],"scribble":[],"viafoura":[],"youtube":[],"vimeo":[],"facebook":[],"trint":[],"slideshare":[],"livestream":[],"resources":[],"video_embed":[],"first_name":"Crystal","last_name":"Good","title":"Publisher","organization":"Black By God | The West Virginian","website":"","twitter":"BlackByGodWV","_sponsor_url":"","_sponsor_tagline":"","_sponsor_level":""},"event":[53],"class_list":["post-8120","ona_speaker","type-ona_speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-ona22"],"yoast_head":"\n