About

Derrick Crowe is a writer, activist, and a communications professional with two decades of experience in progressive politics.

Derrick ran a campaign for Congress in 2018 focused on climate justice and single-payer health care and has since continued to work to elect progressives and defeat right-wing and neoliberal candidates and policies. During his congressional campaign, Derrick was described in the national press as the “science nerd” challenging “Congress’ most detested science denier.” In June 2017, he was arrested in protest of GOP efforts to kick 22 million Americans off of health coverage. Derrick’s run for Congress earned the support of a broad set of local and national progressive groups and individuals, including Democracy for America, Our Revolution, Justice Democrats, and National Nurses United.

On Capitol Hill, Derrick worked for senior Democrats to improve and expand their communications practices. As a senior staffer, Derrick contributed to the effort to retake the House for Democrats in 2006 and to promote the first presidential campaign of then-Sen. Barack Obama in the national media.

Off the Hill, Crowe worked for several left-aligned nonprofits, including the Rethink Afghanistan project at Brave New Foundation, the Center for Public Policy Priorities, and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

Derrick co-founded Mothership Books and Games, a small business in Austin, Texas, that he and his wife, Laurie Crowe, owned and operated until late 2014.

Crowe now works as the communications and digital director for People’s Action, a national network of state-based power-building organizations fighting for health care for all, climate justice, and a Homes Guarantee.

Derrick graduated from Texas Tech University in 2002 and married his college sweetheart, Laurie Law, the following year. The two became parents in 2014.  The Crowes live in Montgomery County, Maryland, where Derrick is a member of the Maryland Writers Association.