Cherie Bridges-Patrick

Cherie Bridges-Patrick is the Technical Expert for Peace and Trust in Communities. Her multiracial and multiethnic experiences have primarily been focused on physical and emotional abuse and neglect, sexual trauma, domestic violence, and attachment issues with children and families in community mental health. Her professional experiences include engaging with Somali families around the complexities of global displacement and resettlement. She is honored to support the programming efforts of Maandeeq Mental Health Centre & Training Institute who offers mental health services and explores the impact of trauma and hidden wounds on state building and political reconciliation processes. She maintains a small private psychotherapy practice and serves as an adjunct faculty member. Cherie is keenly interested in exploring racial dominance and trauma through discourses and use my expertise to explore workplace communication. Her blog topics include normalizing racial dialogue and building capacity for racial justice in the workplace. She recently co-authored a book chapter, Modifying the Stories We Tell: Discourse as Racial Justice Capacity Building in the Helping Professions that is to be published in 2021. She also co-authoring a journal article on whiteness and leadership theorizing to be published later this year.