PAST EVENTS

Gabriel’s ode to Finding Our Voices in comments to the audience at his sold-out event for us on March 9.

“The work that Patrisha does here and her personal journey towards finding her own voice is absolutely inspirational. She went from a position of being powerless in silence and shame like every person who has ever experienced this awful form of abuse and she turned it into something that is by day by the day spreading all over Maine.  

There's a sense of collective pride in being part of something that truly helps in a really visceral, real way for people who are suffering amongst us. And the bravery, the courage that it takes to lift that phone and ask for help is enormous. To lift that phone is the greatest act of courage people in that awful situation can do, but lives are changed by that moment.

And we all here tonight, every single one of us, every dollar has contributed to that and I would just love to say that you know Patrisha said to me that it's nice of me to be here –- it's an honor for me to be asked to be here and I'm really proud of the work that she's doing and that this little part of the world is open to that, and that it will go out from Maine across America, because the model that she's using is a universal model. And this particular illness in society is worldwide, it's everywhere, and it's up to people like us to try to change it in however small a way that we need possibly can.”