Crystal Paradis-Catanzaro (she/her) is Associate Director of Marketing and Communications for The Nature Conservancy. With 15 years of strategic communications experience, Crystal has worked at nonprofit foundations, digital marketing agencies and freelanced as a copywriter and strategic consultant. She has produced and organized large-scale events (TEDxPortsmouth, Portsmouth PRIDE), worked on political campaigns and led advocacy efforts across a variety of social justice causes.
Crystal is currently serving her second term as City Councilor in the City of Somersworth, where she is Chair of the Community Outreach and Communications Committee, and is a member of the Arts & Culture, Public Safety and Economic Development Committees. She is the Council representative to the Somersworth School Board and the City of Somersworth’s representative to COAST Bus. In the fall of 2020, she helped cut the ribbon on Somersworth’s first dog park, a key priority of her inaugural campaign.
Crystal has volunteered with and served on the boards of numerous local nonprofits and is a current board member of SOS Recovery Community Organization. In 2015, she was named one of 10 to Watch by SeacoastOnline and Catapult Seacoast, and in 2019 was named Progressive of the Year by the New Hampshire Young Democrats.
In her spare time, she enjoys feminist birdwatching, and working on her 3-acre homestead, where she lives with her wife Angie and their three dogs and two cats.
