Crispin Nuñez was born and raised in Compton. He attended school in Watts from first grade through high school, graduating in 1990. Shortly after, he enlisted in the U.S. Army. He attended basic training at Fort Jackson S.C., and Advanced Individual Training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Crispin served a total of four years in Field Artillery as a Fire Direction Specialist (M.O.S. - 13 Echo) at Fort Riley, Kansas, and did one tour in Desert Storm in 1991.
After the military, he attended Pima Community College in Tucson, AZ, and received his Associate in General Education in 1999. He moved back to California and took a sabbatical from school and worked in the telecommunication (phone and data services) industry as a customer service representative, premier account manager, project engineer, and senior sales executive at TelePacific Communications Corporation.
He when back to school at California State University, Los Angeles to pursue his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with an option in Entrepreneurship. Crispin graduated with his Bachelor of Science in fall 2020 and received his Master of Business Administration (MBA) in spring 2022. He is looking to continue his career in telecommunication in upper management.