BOARD & QUEEN BEES
Patrisha McLean, Founder & CEO of Finding Our Voices, is a photojournalist and human rights advocate. Patrisha is the author of All Fall Down (2013), the biography of the child actor in Shane, and the photo books Maine Street (2010) about her neighbors in Camden, and My Island (2015), about the children living on Maine islands. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of the Farnsworth Museum and Portland Museum of Art. Read More
Photo by Christina Wnek
BOARD MEMBERS
Nicole Gogan of Cushing serves as board Treasurer with 15 years of financial services and teaching experience. She is deeply passionate about the issue of domestic violence. With an MBA focusing on management she wants to help spread awareness of domestic violence in the workplace, highlighting its financial impact in the business community.
Photo by Patrisha McLean
Cathy Stivers spent her career as a teacher, environmental educator, naturalist, and planner at Maine Audubon and its sanctuaries, and in schools and outdoor programs from greater Portland to Rangeley. She has organized statewide outreach initiatives including the Prison Ashram Project: Human Kindness Foundation and Get Out the Vote campaigns, and was a founding member of Portland Trails and the Woodbridge Foundation. Cathy’s passion for deep ecology, social justice, and the welfare of children intersect in Finding Our Voices' mission. She believes they are all connected.
Jon Wilson, of Brooklin, is Director of JUST Alternatives, a national nonprofit dedicated to victim/survivor support and the advancement of practices that prioritize victims, and hold offenders accountable. He has been a Victim Offender Dialogue (VOD) facilitator in crimes of severe violence since early 2000, and a trainer of VOD facilitators since 2002. He is committed to helping survivors express all they want to offenders, and to helping offenders comprehend the true impacts of their choices, and cultivate personal accountability. Jon is also the founder of WoodenBoat.
Photo by Patrisha McLean
Pamela Gagnon da Silva, LCPC, of Hancock, is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) dedicated to fostering interdependence, equality, and resilience in response to oppression and trauma and has worked exclusively with domestic abuse survivors for the past decade. She is the founder of Resilient Women, a place of support and connection for women impacted by abuse. She teaches Intimate Partner Violence Dynamics and Community Response and
Introduction to Feminist Therapy at College of the Atlantic and is the recipient of the John D. Burchard Award for her contributions to the mental health field specific to her work with Maine teenagers seeking to end dating violence.
Dr. Elizabeth True is the Vice President for Student Affairs at Eastern Maine Community College in Bangor. She also serves as the college’s Title IX Coordinator, and is the Maine State Community Colleges’ representative to the Maine Higher Education Interpersonal Violence Advisory Commission.
True previously worked at Maine Maritime Academy as well as other higher education institutions in the Northeast. She first became engaged in the work of preventing and responding to incidents of interpersonal violence as a volunteer on the crisis hotline for the Rutland Vermont Women’s Shelter. While her experience has focused on college students, she is committed to helping prevent interpersonal violence for all in Maine through awareness campaigns and bystander intervention training.
OPERATIONS MANAGER
Mary Kamradt
Mary brings over 20 years of administrative management in Human Resources and data administration. Before joining Finding Our Voices, she worked as the data coordinator for the largest domestic violence agency in Seattle, WA where she performed data reporting in compliance with all government contracts and also maintained the confidential client database. She is committed to utilizing her professional skills and lived experiences to support survivors and educate the community about domestic violence in Maine.
Photo by Patrisha McLean