Fred Gibson is a co-founder and Core Member of Communities that Protect and Resist. An environmental and social justice activist, he’s lived in Colorado off and on since 1970, and has witnessed the native beauty and biological diversity of the Front Range, as well as its ongoing destruction. He is determined to reverse that trend. Fred’s worked as an organizational psychologist and leadership scholar, coach, and practitioner for over 40 years. As a result, he’s able to offer his experience to build effective leadership and organizational capacity to groups that resist the destruction of the planet. His experiences in the military, business world and academia provide perspectives on organizing and leading, from which he can draw to round out his analysis, and ground CPR initiatives. Fred has participated in resistance work in various forms, including the Castle Rock Prairie Dog campaign in Colorado, support efforts in Oak Flat, Arizona, Standing Rock, North Dakota and the Great Basin, Nevada, and Manila Bay among others. In addition to helping grow CPR as an organization, Fred teaches courses to activists and community leaders, and writes the occasional blog post. He’s ready to work with activists and Community builders to ‘make Community happen’.