https://www.cherylwrightspeaks.com/whoischeryl daily 0.75 2026-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d063eb51584000190a1e8/7f21224e-75a5-4c11-b08b-f7c45a8b4bda/Bali+Swing+with+Hands+OutstretchedJPEG.JPEG Who Is Cheryl - ARTIST NAME https://www.cherylwrightspeaks.com/connect daily 0.75 2026-06-28 https://www.cherylwrightspeaks.com/my-memoir daily 0.75 2026-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d063eb51584000190a1e8/1554234575448-618BOOW7O920YTE08AMZ/Coming+out+of+the+Fog_Final+03312019.png Still Standing - Make it stand out I've Found My Voice Life is not perfect. For a long time, I believed the imperfection of my own life was something I had to carry alone — quietly, privately, without burdening anyone with the truth of what had happened to me. The odds were stacked against me practically from birth. As a young child, I survived sexual abuse by my grandfather — the man who raised me as his own daughter, the man who was supposed to be my protector. I was also groomed and sexually assaulted by a family friend, who is the birth father of my daughter. By the time I was thirteen years old, I was pregnant, alone, and carrying a weight of pain and shame that no child should ever have to bear. For years, I moved through the world with that weight. I smiled. I achieved. I kept going. But underneath it all, I was still that little girl who had been taught that silence was safety. It took decades to unlearn that lesson. What happened to me was not my fault. I had no control over the actions of the adults who were supposed to protect me. But I do have control over what I do with my story — and I have chosen to speak it out loud — because I am committed to being for others what I did not have. Still Standing: From Silence to Purpose is that commitment in print. Today Cheryl Wright is an author, speaker, and inspirer. She is a UC Berkeley alumna, President of the Cal Black Alumni Association, a community leader, and an advocate for those who have felt unseen. She has built a life not in spite of what happened to her — but with full knowledge of it. She moves through the world with one conviction: to be for others what she did not have. Still Standing: From Silence to Purpose Some stories take a lifetime to tell. This one took eight years to write. Still Standing: From Silence to Purpose is the debut memoir of Cheryl Wright — a woman who survived childhood sexual abuse, became a mother at thirteen, and testified against her abuser alone in a courtroom. She went on to graduate from the University of California, Berkeley as a single mother — and, more than twenty years later, earned a master's degree, proof that her growth never stopped. She built a career and became an advocate for those who have felt unseen. This is not a how-to guide for healing. It is a testimony. A witness. A voice that was silenced for decades — and is silent no longer. It is written for every person who has carried shame they didn't earn, pain they didn't choose, and a silence they were never meant to keep. For everyone who has survived what they were never supposed to have to endure. For everyone who needs someone to say: where you start is not where you will end. Cheryl Wright is still standing. And after reading this book, you will know that you can stand too. https://www.cherylwrightspeaks.com/workwithme daily 0.75 2026-08-15 https://www.cherylwrightspeaks.com/new-page daily 0.75 2026-04-13 https://www.cherylwrightspeaks.com/home-wav daily 1.0 2026-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d063eb51584000190a1e8/00cefba7-ad70-4cc4-8325-66a9d5f1cd51/Cheryl+website+pic+-+Edited.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d063eb51584000190a1e8/ded12c8d-092e-456a-9202-5c9e194aea12/Cheryl+Wedding+Picture.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9d063eb51584000190a1e8/37bab64c-9c31-424c-bf09-c30f51107798/Cheryl_Marlon+Photo+Shoot.jpg