A/R & Certification Specialist
I’m Kristen
Harding, and I’ve been at CRC since 2000. After being a
stay-at-home mom for 20 years, I joined CRC as a part-time employee in
production and have worked in production, certifications, calendar and
scheduling, and now assisting with accounts receivable. I’ve had
the privilege of watching CRC grow from four employees in one office with just
a handful of reporter clients to what it is today – multiple offices around the
country and many more remarkable employees and amazing reporters.
Born and
raised in western New York in a little village, graduated from Tufts
University in Boston with a B.A. in English in 1968. My first
real job was in the public relations department for Rochester Blue Cross Blue
Shield focusing on publications. I then worked at Duke University
heading up the Typing Bureau back in the days before computers and word
processors and copiers, for that matter! – my job was to facilitate
students and grad students with typing their papers, theses and
dissertations (on typewriters with carbon copies). My husband
finished grad school and we moved to New Orleans where I worked for four
ambitious young attorneys as one of their legal secretaries in a busy exciting
practice – the highlight of my time there was the introduction of the
correcting Selectric typewriter! Our next move was overseas
where I lived in Tunisia and Malta while my husband worked in Libya and
Abu Dhabi as an exploration geologist in the desert oil fields. We
eventually moved to Tulsa with our growing family, then to Denver,
then to Tyler, Texas and finally to Houston, moving wherever the oil patch took
us. My husband John is now retired. Our daughter
and two sons are all grown up now and busy with their lives around the
country. We have two beautiful grandchildren, Elliot and Grace, who
live in the New York City area, and we have a black Lab Scotty who rules
our lives (in a good way).
The
highlight of my life outside work, besides the rare time I get to spend with my
grandchildren, is visiting our summer cottage in the Finger Lakes in New
York. 2013 is our family’s 100th year at the lake
– it’s a very special place for our extended family and
friends.
In spare time I enjoy reading, gardening and various
needle arts – embroidery, knitting, sewing – and keeping up with friends around
the world. I enjoy going to the movies, listening to music both
recorded and live, and I’m a hoarder of antiques.