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Michael Patrick MacDonald

Best-Selling Author

Michael Patrick MacDonald

Michael Patrick MacDonald

Best-Selling Author

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Michael Patrick MacDonald Biography

Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in the Old Colony Housing Project in South Boston, a neighborhood that held the highest concentration of white poverty in the United States. After losing four of his eleven siblings and seeing his generation decimated by poverty, crime, addiction and incarceration, he learned to transform personal and community trauma by becoming a leading Boston activist, organizer and writer.

MacDonald is the author of the New York Times Bestselling memoir, All Souls: A Family Story From Southie and the acclaimed Easter Rising: A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion. These two books are often selected as First Year Experience reads, for which MacDonald is available to speak at colleges and universities. He has been awarded an American Book Award, A New England Literary Lights Award and a fellowship at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study Center. MacDonald has written a number of essays and short stories, including The Resurrection of Cornelius Larkin and An Immigrant’s Tale, written for the Dropkick Murphy’s theme album “Going Out in Style.” He is also a regular contributor to The Boston Globe’s Op Ed page and is currently writing a series with Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism regarding the 40th anniversary of busing and ongoing race and class issues in Greater Boston.

As an activist, MacDonald has focused his efforts on multi-cultural coalition building to reduce violence and promote grassroots leadership from our most impacted communities. He has developed Gun Buyback programs and local support groups, which give voice to adult and youth survivors of poverty, violence and the drug trade. MacDonald is on many local and national boards, including the Children’s Defense Fund’s Beat The Odds Essay Selection Committee, Crittenton Women’s Union National Advisory Committee and Families First of Greater Boston Advisory Board.

Michael Patrick MacDonald serves as Author-in-Residence at Northeastern University’s Honors Department, where he teaches his curricula: “Non-Fiction Writing & Social Justice Issues” and “The North of Ireland: Conflict, Reconciliation, and a Lasting Peace with Justice" every fall. He is also a Guest Lecturer at California State University, Northridge CA during the spring and at The University of Mannheim in the summer.

MacDonald is currently completing the screenplay for All Souls and is working on his third book, which will use narrative non-fiction storytelling to reveal issues of trans-generational trauma in our communities. In addition, he has developed a community-based writing and healing curriculum, Transforming Trauma: Finding Your Voice, which is currently being used with the Crittenton Women’s Union in Boston to help women who are transitioning out of poverty find their voices on the page and in the world.

As a speaker, MacDonald passionately and knowledgeably addresses a wide range of topics, including finding your voice, transforming trauma into leadership, race and the unspoken issue of class, grassroots organizing to reduce guns, violence and drugs in America, and other current topics personal to him, such as the Whitey Bulger case. Audiences will hear personal stories from MacDonald and be inspired to participate in the creative process of building a strong, better community.

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Michael Patrick MacDonald Speaking Topics

  • Cross-Cultural Community Building

  • Organizing to Reduce Violence & Drug Use

  • Our Common Ground: Race & the Unspoken Issue of Class in America

  • The Legacy of South Boston Crime Boss Whitey Bulger

  • Using Circle Process as a Technique for Creating the Space to Tell Our Stories (Workshop)

    In this workshop, Michael Patrick MacDonald provides specific answers to the following question: how do we allow our young people the space to find their voice • first, to find their voice to tell their story at their own pace, completely owning every step they take in that process, and then to find their voice in the world? Speaker Michael Patrick MacDonald says we must begin by listening, something he does with his Circle Process. Circle Process (literally "sitting in a circle") creates a space without hierarchy where we all feel listened to and where we lose separation, gain empathy for the other, and find company in our stories. It’s all about constructing our narratives, owning our narratives, and finding ways to connect with others through our stories and theirs. From MacDonald’s own experience and his observation of young people healing from past trauma, this has proven to be a powerful way forward in the aftermath of trauma.

  • Finding Your Voice: Helping Young People Transform Trauma into Leadership

    Michael Patrick MacDonald is the author of two best-selling coming-of-age memoirs: All Souls: A Family Story from Southie and Easter Rising: A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion. Both deal with the issues he experienced growing up in South Boston's Old Colony Housing Project, an area found to have the highest concentration of white poverty in America and some of Boston's highest death rates from substance abuse and its attendant violence (including suicide). Having lost four siblings to poverty, violence, and the drug trade, MacDonald has used his personal story to promote a conversation about trauma in the lives of young people and about the possibility for individual healing and community-wide change.

    Before becoming a full-time writer, MacDonald worked as a community organizer, helping to build coalitions to reduce substance abuse and street violence by promoting leadership from among those most impacted by the drug trade. "Finding Your Voice" uses stories from his own teen years to illustrate the impact of poverty and trauma (specifically violence and drug abuse) on young people and the transformative power of empathy and listening among service providers and therapists. This lecture strives to help youth workers and service providers:

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  • All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
    All Souls: A Family Story from Southie

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Michael Patrick MacDonald is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Cross-Cultural Community Building, Organizing to Reduce Violence & Drug Use, Our Common Ground: Race & the Unspoken Issue of Class in America, The Legacy of South Boston Crime Boss Whitey Bulger, Using Circle Process as a Technique for Creating the Space to Tell Our Stories (Workshop) and Finding Your Voice: Helping Young People Transform Trauma into Leadership. The estimated speaking fee range to book Michael Patrick MacDonald for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. Michael Patrick MacDonald generally travels from New York, NY, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are John Zogby, Victoria Rowell, Kevin Powell, Juan Williams and Sonia Nazario. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Michael Patrick MacDonald for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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