Patrisha McLean
…founder/president of Finding Our Voices.
In 2016, Patrisha's secret of 29 years was outed with worldwide headlines about the domestic violence arrest of her celebrity husband. Countless women in her small community in Maine revealed to her that they too had been terrorized by an intimate partner, with some saying, “I always wanted to tell my story.” This led Patrisha to create the Finding Our Voices multi-media exhibit of photo portraits and audio recordings of 14 local, women survivors. The exhibit opened in Patrisha’s hometown Camden Public Library on Valentine’s Day 2019 and traveled across the state including four months that fall in the Holocaust and Human Rights Center in the state capitol of Augusta. With COVID, the indoor exhibit turned to outdoor posters, that have spread to 90 Maine downtowns.