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Board Members and Staff

Crystal Bock Thiessen

Executive Director

Crystal Bock Thiessen is an English language educator and the Executive Director of Global Ties Nebraska, where she has served as a board member since 2014 and as board president from 2017-2020. As an educator, she taught in Sapporo, Japan for three years, and in Lugansk, Ukraine for one as an English Language Fellow in conjunction with Georgetown University and the U.S. Department of State. She has worked as a U.S. Department of State English Language Specialist since 2013, training English teachers in Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Georgia, Belarus, Russia, and Vietnam. Currently, she is an ESL instructor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she has been since 2012. Besides teaching, she has a background in photography and art, which she loves to bring to various creative endeavors, as well as a passion for travel, which has fueled her visiting and photographing 55 countries and 36 U.S. states.

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