Mayor G.T. Bynum has hired Krystal Reyes as the Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) for the City of Tulsa effective immediately.

The Office of Resilience and Equity records human rights’ complaints and uses “equality indicators” to address “racial disparity.”

Reyes was director of community engagement for the Division of Family and Child Health at the New York City Health Department.

Prior to her work at the New York City Health Department, Reyes, was executive director of the Hunts Point Alliance for Children, a community-based organization in the South Bronx. Reyes has a master of public administration and bachelor of arts in political science from New York University and has training from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in participatory action research.