Jean Crowley (She, Hers, Queen) is the Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer at the Crowley Foundation, Inc. Jean was born and raised in Muskogee, Oklahoma, as the oldest of 3 siblings. She is a first-generation college graduate from the best HBCU in the world, Langston University (Langston, Oklahoma), where she also met her husband of 29 years, Kenneth D Crowley Sr.
Jean’s background began in telecommunications and then migrated to the healthcare industry where she served in a leadership role for 11 years. While working in healthcare, her true passion ignited when she helped launch the Crowley Foundation to help young Black and Brown men ages 14-25 to realize their true potential, transcend life challenges, and become leaders and role models in their communities. Young men of color face social, economic, and health disparities stemming from generations of systemic racism, trauma, a lack of resources, and false narratives. Through her work at the foundation, Jean learned that inspiring young men of color to overcome these disparities and realize their potential and value requires patience, love and time. She describes her role as “the heart that gives life when the visionary has spoken.” For 13 years, the Crowley Foundation has grown by leaps and bounds internally and externally, extending their programs beyond Denver, Colorado to Dallas, Texas and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. To date, the Crowley Foundation has reached over 21,000 young men and families.
Jean is the proud mother of two children: Kenneth II (Jaliah) and Jayana. She is also blessed to have one grandson: Jaxsen.