PATRISHA
Founder & CEO of Finding Our Voices
Patrisha McLean
Patrisha became a firebrand for women’s rights at the age of 55, sparked by the domestic violence arrest of her celebrity husband. (Read the article in The Irish Times.).
In addition to being acting executive director of Finding Our Voices, she runs an online book club looking at books through the lens of domestic abuse and hosts a Podcast and radio show featuring conversations with domestic abuse survivors.
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Named by WOMEN'S e-News as one of 21 Leaders for the 21st Century, she regularly contributes opinion pieces about domestic abuse to Maine’s two daily newspapers, Portland Press Herald and Bangor Daily News. Her talks on domestic abuse include to Harvard Law School, Maine high schools, and gatherings of police chiefs and district attorneys.
Patrisha's previous career was an award-winning photographer. Her books are Maine Street and My Island, appreciation in photos and prose respectively of her neighbors in Camden, Maine and children living on Maine islands; and All Fall Down, and the biography of Brandon de Wilde (child star of the movie Shane). She is a calligrapher and scuba dives in Egypt and Indonesia.
Presentations
SHALVA Luncheon 2021 keynote Conversation with Patrisha and her daughter Jackie
June 2021
Dirigo Talks A conversation with Patrisha & Waldo County Sheriff Jeffrey Trafton
April 2020
University of New England, Patrisha talks to students at UNE Biddeford.
February 2020
Domestic Abuse is a Human Rights Issue
Holocaust and Human Rights Center
October 2019
Patrisha finds her voice: First public talk on abusive marriage.
February 2019
Podcast Guest Appearances
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Portland Press Herald