Gordon Crean

Gordon Crean received a PhD in Applied Psychology and Prevention Science in 2024 and a Master of Arts in Community Social Psychology in 2020 from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. They received a BA in Critical Cognitive Science from Clark University in Worcester, MA, in 2016. 

As a critical community psychologist, Gordon is especially interested in the psychosocial praxis of activist collectives and social movements: how people transform, heal, and help build a more just world through the relationships and practices they nurture together. Their dissertation research focused on how white antiracist activists in the US and Canada have experienced transformations in their understanding and practice of accountability through engagements with PIC abolition work. 

Gordon serves on the advisory board of the Martín-Baró Initiative, a donor circle for healing justice and liberation psychology, which fundraises for organizations and collectives primarily in the Global South that support the healing and well-being of communities surviving and resisting oppression. They are also a part of the Culture and Care Working Group of Organizing White Men for Collective Liberation, a national network focused on mobilizing white men and AMAB people to take action against white supremacy and patriarchy.

Gordon is passionate about facilitating and co-creating communities of learning rooted in dialogue and social justice, and they are deeply grateful for the opportunity to do so at Prescott College. 

Gordon is a Buddhist lay practitioner, and an avid runner, hiker, and biker. They play guitar and piano and are passionate about the transformative and healing power of music.