Dr. Patty Huerta-Meza is the executive director for a local non-profit that serves at-risk and vulnerable families. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and an adjunct professor at Chapman University. Her areas of interest include strengthening communities, multicultural mental health, treatment of shame, trauma, and forensic and correctional treatment. She has presented at numerous local, national and international conferences. She co-authored a community-accessible textbook deriving from the partnership between padres unidos and Chapman University “let’s chat―cultivating community university dialogue: a coffee table textbook on partnerships.” Patty enjoys growing spiritually through the gift of family and mentoring future psychologists. Patty is the proud wife of husband Ralph and mother of a one year-old son Maximiliano.