Brave Alliance Executive Director and Forensic Nurse Director, Crystal Love, is a Registered Nurse and certified Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner with 24 years of nursing experience, including 18 years in forensic nursing. She has extensive experience providing trauma-informed medical forensic care for patients across the lifespan affected by sexual assault, domestic violence, strangulation, child abuse, and human trafficking.

 

Crystal founded Brave Alliance, a Central Texas community-based forensic nursing program, to expand access to compassionate, patient-centered forensic healthcare services in underserved communities. Under her leadership, Brave Alliance has grown into a multidisciplinary response program serving multiple counties throughout Central Texas and providing hundreds of medical forensic exams annually.

 

In addition to direct patient care, Crystal is an experienced educator and expert witness who regularly collaborates with hospitals, law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, advocacy organizations, and community partners to improve victim response systems and forensic nursing practices. Her work focuses on increasing access to specialized forensic healthcare while ensuring a compassionate, victim-centered approach for every patient served.

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Outside of her professional work, Crystal enjoys reading, homeschooling and attending her children's sports events, along with spending time with her family at the beach or on a vacation. Born and raised in Central Texas, she is married to her husband, Jeff, and is the proud mother of five children—three girls and two boys—and a grandmother of two, affectionately known as “Coco.”

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