“Engaging with Crystal’s work brought a level of clarity I had not experienced before. She brings clarity to something that is incredibly difficult to make sense of.”
-Survivor
Meet
Crystal
Hi, I'm Crystal L. Fedeli.
I'm a speaker, consultant, social researcher and policy analyst. I am also an award-winning 501(c)(3) nonprofit founder and Executive Director.
All of my work focuses on understanding coercive control, helping organizations respond better and helping individuals navigate better. By bringing together research, policy, lived experience, and systems thinking, I work to improve institutional responses to coercive control while helping individuals navigating family court after coercive control do so with greater clarity and strategy.
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THE
Crystal Fedeli
PODCAST
Tune into the Crystal Fedeli Podcast, where we focus on what happens when institutional norms and practices diverge from evidence-based practice (science, research, and law) and instead revert to a practice-based approach (tradition and opinion), and how that has harmful consequences for vulnerable and marginalized individuals. We are currently in a special series titled: When Coercive Control Turns Financial, the Family Court Response, and the Cascading Consequences. Click below to tune in.
Research & Publications
Accompanying the podcast series, I wrote a white paper titled: When Coercive Control Turns Financial, the Family Court Response, and the Cascading Consequences. It is so important for institutional norms and practices to be grounded in evidence-based practice (science, research, and law) instead of reverting to a practice-based approach (tradition and opinion), otherwise vulnerable and marginalized individuals are harmed. Click below to explore.
2026 Nonprofit of the Year
Award Recipient
In recognition of her work to improve community responses to financial coercive control, Crystal Fedeli received the 2026 Nonprofit of the Year Award from Mayor Aneka Miller of Bordentown, New Jersey.
As Founder and Executive Director of You Made a Way, an award-winning 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Crystal leads initiatives that bring together research, education, community partnerships, advocacy, and innovative programs to strengthen support for women leaving coercive control when it turns financial.
*Pictured are Crystal L. Fedeli and her children following the presentation of the 2026 Nonprofit of the Year Award by Mayor Aneka Miller at the 2026 Bordentown Mayoral Ball.
“I felt like I was losing my sense of reality, but after engaging with Crystal’s work, everything began to make sense. I began to see that I’m not alone, that there is an explanation for what I experienced, and that there is a way through, and Crystal helped me find it.”
-Survivor
