PATRISHA

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.).

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.

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.

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.