Gibson is a certified spiritual director, poet, musician and artist. She is retired as executive director of the Greater Rochester Community of Churches, aka: Faith In Action Network, and ordained elder at Downtown United Presbyterian Church. Her graduate degree is in Holistic Theology. She is the mother of three grown children, has six grandchildren, two rescue cats, feeds several ferals, squirrels, and a plethora of backyard birds. She lives with her spouse, the Rev. Peggy Meeker, a retired Unitarian Universalist minister, in Rochester, NY.