Scholar. Builder. Believer.
Founder of Sufficient Cause and associate professor studying reproductive decision-making.
I’m Krystale. I’ve been a professor for 13 years, conducting research that improves reproductive autonomy for people who can become pregnant and providing mentorship in entrepreneurship to improve economic security for other academics.
Over the course of my career, I’ve seen talented women of color academics driven out of academia because of structural inequities. I’ve seen talented friends lose their hard-won grants and their livelihoods overnight, upending everything that they’ve worked for. And, I’ve seen people across a range of identities wonder if tenure can truly offer us the security that we’ve hoped for.
So, I built Sufficient Cause to use sociology for social good beyond the classroom (and the specifics of my research). If you want to learn more about how I’m teaching women of color academics to earn revenue beyond the university, check it out below. If you want to read more about my academic work, check it out here.
Intellectual leadership deserves structural freedom
I'm on a mission to help women of color academics in the social sciences and humanities earn independence because I believe in the power of knowledge to transform society.
I help chronically undervalued WOC academics ship what matters most for tenure (and beyond), then sell and scale to move beyond institutional precarity.
Making Success Predictable Through Systematic Frameworks
Most support for academics relies on motivation and willpower. I teach research-based frameworks that I’ve developed and tested myself to cultivate the conditions that make success predictable in research and revenue.
Create the Conditions for Success
Distinguish between the conditions required for success and the conditions that create it. Spend more time focusing on the actions that generate success for your papers, presentations, books, grant proposals, and revenue-generating projects and less time overthinking everything else.
Build Time Wealth
Experience time freedom. You can stop waiting for the magic moment when all of your obligations will disappear (it won’t come) and start learning how to become your own time architect through my zero-based time budgeting system so you can protect time for your scholarship and revenue-building work.
Put the SHIP in Entrepreneurship
I make learning entrepreneurship to create an independent income easy using research design. Learn about how the SHIP framework that I’ve developed helps you test, refine, and provide reputation-safe offers that create the independence you deserve without having to go to school for another degree.
How I Help
Resistance Reboot
Stop stalling on your most important research and revenue work. In 6 weeks, learn the frameworks that make shipping inevitable—not through motivation or willpower, but through creating systematic conditions that all-but-guarantee execution.
Overcome Procrastination Systematically
Krystale and the community have been transformational in shaping how I approach my day-to-day writing and research. I highly recommend anyone who has been feeling stuck or struggles with resistance to join.
-Assistant Professor, R1
This experience has been transformative. I've made countless attempts to force productivity through different systems and have attended all the bootcamps, but any changes have always been short-lived. What makes Rise Hive different isn't just that Krystale is exceptional (though she is), but that she's created a space where vulnerability, collaboration, and community building are central to the work.
-Research Assistant Professor, R1
Resistance Reboot is a game changer for academics!! In just a short time my perspective on work, goal-setting, rest, time, systems, energy, and rewards has completely shifted.
-Post-doc, R1
Revenue-Ready Scholar
Revenue beyond the university on your own terms
Start earning what you’re worth. Building income beyond your university doesn’t have to be scary, overwhelming, or cringe. Revenue-Ready Scholar is my systematic approach that allows you to transform your expertise into a clear, compelling, reputation-safe offer that you can provide alongside your university role so you can comfortably build income and options beyond your institution.
Revenue-Ready Scholar is for you if:
- Your CV keeps getting longer, but your income and options stay the same
- You’re confused about what to sell and worry about how your academic colleagues will perceive you
- You want income and options without feeling (or looking) cringe
- You want to build income in a way that aligns with your capacity and values
Free Resources
Develop systems that make success inevitable using tips I provide in my free newsletter, Sufficient Cause: Systems for Thriving so you can publish, get promoted, and start earning revenue beyond your university on your own terms. Subscribe on Substack here.