Jibben is Named Cheyenne Community Action Team’s Volunteer of The Year

Cheyenne's BJ Jibben is shown during an aging conference in Cheyenne. Jibben was recently named the Cheyenne Community Action Team's Volunteer of The Year by AARP Wyoming.


Cheyenne’s BJ Jibben has been named Volunteer of The Year for AARP Wyoming’s Cheyenne Community Action Team. She will receive her award this October at the AARP office.

Jibben leads AARP Wyoming’s Cheyenne Community Action Team, a group of around 20, who meet monthly to develop and hold AARP Community events. Those events can be community service-related or just for fun or socialization. In the last year, the Cheyenne Community Action Team has volunteered to execute Veterans Resource Fairs, paper shredding events, held online cooking writing and art classes and offered free movie events for adults over the age of 50.

“Our meetings allow us to get together and figure out how we can help our community with resources or fun, or socialization,” Jibben said. “ I’ve been very proud of our work with veterans at our Cheyenne and Laramie Resource Fairs. Anyone who is willing to put their life on the line so I can run my mouth means more to me than I can possibly say. To give them a possible resource they might need makes me feel happy and very proud to do that.”

In addition to her role as the Community Action Team leader in Cheyenne, Jibben has become the first AARP Wyoming volunteer to run virtual events on behalf of AARP. She also co-leads the mall walking group that brought her into the AARP Wyoming fold.

“I was walking the mall one day and saw Jenn (AARP Wyoming Outreach Director Jenn Baier) with her AARP staff at the mall and I told her I was a member and wanted to know more about what was going on,” Jibben said. “I have been working from home since 2020 and I still work from home part-time. I really enjoy working with the team. I do it to keep me out of the house and keep me sane, as my dog doesn’t talk back to me.”

Born in Pennsylvania and raised in upstate New York, Jibben moved to Wyoming in 1994 with her family. She currently works for the Wyoming Realtors Association part-time, after spending 10 years at the Wyoming Real Estate Commission, as well as a stint as a loan officer, and an insurance adjuster. She holds associates degrees in Business Administration, Senior Claims Law, and Associate in Claims. In her free time she reads, crochets, quilts and cross stitches.

“I am very good at doing a lot of things with humor and people appreciate that. We all get old, but let’s do it with humor and having fun.”