Colleen Gibley-Reed, MSW, LCSW

cgibleyreed@illuminatecolorado.org

Colleen Gibley-Reed joined the Illuminate Colorado team in July of 2024 as the Director of Education. In her role, Colleen is responsible for leading the Education Strategies of Illuminate Colorado. From curricula development and implementation, through training promotion and delivery, to revision and continuous quality improvement, Colleen oversees and ensures consistency and high-quality education programming, supports communications and evaluation processes, and engages with partners at the local, state, and national level.

Before joining Illuminate, Colleen spent nearly eleven years with the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect as a Faculty Instructor and Lead County Learning Coordinator for the Colorado Child Welfare Training System. In this position, she was responsible for cultivating and managing effective working relationships with the eleven largest Colorado counties to respond to their professional development needs.

Previous to her work at the Kempe Center, Colleen spent nineteen years with the Larimer County Department of Human Services. Her child welfare experience includes work in family preservation, ongoing child protection, foster and kinship care, staff training, and practice coaching.

Colleen believes that all families deserve to thrive, and is passionate about using her skills to help others learn how to support families so they can reach their full potential.

Outside of Illuminate, Colleen also teaches as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Denver, teaching courses on power, privilege, and oppression at the Graduate School of Social Work.

Colleen has spent her entire life in Colorado, with her favorite part being the 300 days of wonderful sunshine every year. In her free time, you can find her spending time with her husband and their four furry children!