Let’s Talk About It

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Production assistance: Alex Wilder

A discussion of children, the court system and animal abuse, with Mary Lou Smith, Lian Anderson, Jeannine Lauber Oren, Christine Buckley and Maegan Graeslie, all Survivor/participants of Finding Our Voices

About the host:
Patrisha McLean is an award-winning photojournalist and human rights activist based in Camden Maine. She specializes in ending the stigma and shame for human struggles including homelessness and drug addiction.

In 2019, her multi-media exhibit featuring the faces and voices of Maine Survivors of domestic abuse toured the state including three months at the Holocaust and Human Rights Center, Augusta. She has presented her project and her own story of entrapment and freedom to groups ranging from high school and university students to women prisoners. Patrisha is president of the non-profit organization Finding Our Voices which is committed to breaking the silence of intimate partner abuse conversation by conversation, through bold, creative, community projects.

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Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Production assistance: Alex Wilder

A discussion of financial abuse, coercive control and physical/sexual abuse with guests Courtney Billings and Jess Harriman

About the host:
Patrisha McLean is an award-winning photojournalist and human rights activist based in Camden Maine. She specializes in ending the stigma and shame for human struggles including homelessness and drug addiction.
In 2019, her multi-media exhibit featuring the faces and voices of Maine Survivors of domestic abuse toured the state including three months at the Holocaust and Human Rights Center, Augusta. She has presented her project and her own story of entrapment and freedom to groups ranging from high school and university students to women prisoners. Patrisha is president of the non-profit organization Finding Our Voices which is committed to breaking the silence of intimate partner abuse conversation by conversation, through bold, creative, community projects.

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Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Production assistance: Alex Wilder

This episode is a conversation with Maine survivors Eve, Sarah and Alison and producer, Patrisha McLean. They discuss domestic abuse in their lives as it relates to the court system, children, the COVID-19 pandemic and other issues.

About the host:
Patrisha McLean is an award-winning photojournalist and human rights activist based in Camden Maine. She specializes in ending the stigma and shame for human struggles including homelessness and drug addiction.
In 2019, her multi-media exhibit featuring the faces and voices of Maine Survivors of domestic abuse toured the state including three months at the Holocaust and Human Rights Center, Augusta. She has presented her project and her own story of entrapment and freedom to groups ranging from high school and university students to women prisoners. Patrisha is president of the non-profit organization Finding Our Voices which is committed to breaking the silence of intimate partner abuse conversation by conversation, through bold, creative, community projects.

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