Outside of Johns Hopkins, Crews was elected to the National Kidney Foundation of Maryland Board of Directors in June 2015. She was also inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society in 2017 and appointed to the American Society of Nephrology's executive committee in 2018. At the same time, Crews earned recognition from the National Academy of Medicine as an elected member of the Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine program for three years. In further recognition of her work, Crews received Johns Hopkins President's Frontier Award as someone who is "poised to break new ground and be leaders in their fields." The following year, she was also named one of the inaugural recipients of the American Society of Nephrology's Midcareer Award.
