Community Engagement & Lived and Living Expertise Strategy
Building sustainable infrastructure created by-for-with community experts.
Creative Resistance
Hi, I'm Betsy Craft
Founder of Creative Resistance based in Denver, Colorado. My work brings together community-engaged research, policy, grassroots organizing, and strategic partnerships to elevate impacted voices and build solutions that move systems away from punishment and toward care.
Services and Partnerships
Areas where I bridge community wisdom and system-level change — transforming lived and living expertise into research, policy, and action rooted in care.
Public Health & Overdose Prevention
Advancing evidence-based Harm Reduction interventions grounded in trust, equity, relationships, and real-world experience.
Policy Advocacy, Coalition-Building & Systems Change
Mobilizing community knowledge into strategy, coordinated action, and policy that moves systems away from punishment.
Community-Led Research, Storytelling & Arts-Based Dissemination
Translating lived and living expertise into research, art, and public knowledge that moves beyond institutional walls.
Training, Facilitation & Technical Assistance
Creating spaces for mutual learning, shared power, and accountable action between communities and systems.
From the Blog
View allField notes from Harm Reduction work, zine launches, advocacy days, and community events around Colorado.
Creative Resistance: arts-based activism and drug policy in Colorado
Join us June 25 in Denver for an evening with Heather Edney celebrating the launch of 8:32, a drug user-led Harm Reduction zine.
Selected Projects
View allCoalitions, research collaborations, and community storytelling projects — rooted in community partnerships and lived and living expertise leadership.
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