Meet The Team

Dr. Chris Hergesheimer, CAT Project Lead & Program Manager, Community Development and Poverty Reduction Program, Sunshine Coast Resource Centre

Dr. Chris Hergesheimer is a sociologist, a charitable food program manager, a committed social justice worker, a community organizer and mobilizer, a citizen activist, a rational optimist and musician. Recently awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal for his work in Community Service and Philanthropy, Chris is deeply passionate about fighting inequity and championing bold systemic changes. Chris lives with his family on the traditional, unceded and ancestral lands of the Shishalh (Sechelt) Nation on the Sunshine Coast, in British Columbia.

Gabe Pausch, Peer Coordinator, Community
Action Team (CAT)

Gabe Pausch is a trusted community advocate with decades of frontline experience supporting people impacted by homelessness and substance use. Grounded in lived experience and tenacity, she leads peer capacity building through naloxone training, harm reduction, and trauma-informed practice-tearing down the walls of stigma while strengthening confidence, compassion, and collective community outcomes.