She attended high school in King George High school before moving on to study economics at the University of Virginia. She briefly worked for the CGI group afterwards she went on to help in the recovering after the Hurricane Katrina.

Personal Life

She is married to Jonathan Dariyanani and they both have two children Ella Marie and Lowell Maxwell.

Although she divorced her ex husband Aaron Peterson a year after their marriage together.

Krystal was involved in a controversy on October 2010, when she was at the final stages of her campaign, photos of her taken six years ago prior to that time was released to the public, she was putting on a naughty Santa outfit, the picture caused a wide stir and was seen as one of the challenges women face in our society today.

Krystal has a net worth of about $43 million dollars.

She tends to be active on social media and she has an established relationship with her followers.

Career

Krystal own a small business which she manages and also she's a certified public accountant, aside from that she's has been involved in politics.

She co-hosted a show titled The Cycle on MSNBC the show aired for about three years before it was cancelled.

In 2010 she went on the race to represent Virginia’s first congressional district in the  house of representative but lost to republican. Rob Whitman.

Krystal is also known as a political commentator, she has made several appearances on television channels like the Fox News Channel, CNBC and CNN, aside from this she's also a contributes to publications in the Huffington Post. Forbes ranked her as number 21 among the list of most powerful women in the mid term election list.

Although her congressional political race was her first run for public office, she has been considered as one of those who use social media to influence politics and it was considered to be an innovative way of playing politics

Political career

She's is better known as democratic strategist, She' s an NRA member and has supported second Amendment. She also supported Educational reforms like ; paying of teachers six figure salaries, Use of technology, charter schools and alternative certification of teachers.

She is also a political writer and many of her publications has featured in top sites, she is known for having a good relationship with her audiences on social media platforms, she constantly asks them on their views towards things.

Aside from her being featured in Forbes list she was rated by the Week Magazine as one of the eight political stars in 2010, along side Marco Rubio, Chris Christie and Scott Brown.

She has also featured as a speaker in Princeton, Columbia and George Washington University.

She also writes for Truman Doctrine a blog based on national security and she was given an award for her excellence in media by Truman.