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Dr. Cherie Bridges Patrick (she/her/we)
Dr. Cherie Bridges Patrick is a leadership educator and coach, psychotherapist, consultant, scholar-practitioner, and aspiring thought leader. Dr. Patrick is the founder of Paradox Cross-Cultural Consulting, Training & Empowerment LLC. Paradox helps educational institutions repair their internal disconnects and develop capacity to normalize generative race-related conversations that unlock new levels of innovation and social change.
Dr. Patrick's coaching and consulting practice is grounded in her own research that examined how racial dominance was reproduced in day-to-day workplace discourses. She is adept at creating and facilitating courageous spaces for rich and generative racial dialogue where everyone enters and leaves with their dignity intact and humanity honored. Her current research and practices utilize discourse at the intersections of workplace racial denial, racial trauma and stress, dominance and oppression, and draws on somatic healing practice as an element of social justice.
Through Paradox, Cherie develops racial justice leadership education and coaching content, offers racial justice workshops, leadership coaching and consulting to social service and academic institutions/leaders. She is a faculty member at Antioch University and has a small private psychotherapy practice. Paradox uses our signature methodology to customize a step-by-step process of diagnosis first, then action for organizations and leaders. Paradox relies on an adaptive leadership framework supported by critical race, feminist and trauma theories and somatic and mindfulness practices. Dr. Patrick's Ph.D. research project Navigating the Silences: Social Worker Discourses Around Race has been downloaded nearly 500 times in 32 countries and can be found here.
When she is not working with leaders and organizations around racial justice, Cherie loves time with her grandkids and enjoys, hiking, photography, and researching and writing about racial dominance and somatic healing in leadership practices.
Dr. Patrick's coaching and consulting practice is grounded in her own research that examined how racial dominance was reproduced in day-to-day workplace discourses. She is adept at creating and facilitating courageous spaces for rich and generative racial dialogue where everyone enters and leaves with their dignity intact and humanity honored. Her current research and practices utilize discourse at the intersections of workplace racial denial, racial trauma and stress, dominance and oppression, and draws on somatic healing practice as an element of social justice.
Through Paradox, Cherie develops racial justice leadership education and coaching content, offers racial justice workshops, leadership coaching and consulting to social service and academic institutions/leaders. She is a faculty member at Antioch University and has a small private psychotherapy practice. Paradox uses our signature methodology to customize a step-by-step process of diagnosis first, then action for organizations and leaders. Paradox relies on an adaptive leadership framework supported by critical race, feminist and trauma theories and somatic and mindfulness practices. Dr. Patrick's Ph.D. research project Navigating the Silences: Social Worker Discourses Around Race has been downloaded nearly 500 times in 32 countries and can be found here.
When she is not working with leaders and organizations around racial justice, Cherie loves time with her grandkids and enjoys, hiking, photography, and researching and writing about racial dominance and somatic healing in leadership practices.
Kayren Gray, M. Ed. (she/her/hers)
Kayren is the author of The Road to Equity: The Five C’s to Construct an Equitable Classroom and creates spaces for classrooms, campuses, and communities to begin a conversation to close the gap and change the narrative. Kayren brings her experience as a Texas public school teacher, parent, assistant principal, entrepreneur, and DEI advocate. In her various positions, she has created equitable initiatives to create more inclusive, diverse programs and policies to get and keep students connected to campus in a positive way. Kayren has worked with various organizations to include school districts, universities, and businesses to facilitate workshops and training. She holds a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership, is founder of MK Results LLC, and hosts a podcast entitled “The Road to Equity” because she knows diversity begins with dialogue.