Chaplain Clementina Chéry is the Founder, President, and CEO of the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. A center of healing, teaching, and learning for families and communities impacted by murder, trauma, grief, and loss, Chaplain Chéry and her family founded the Peace Institute in 1994 after the murder of her 15-year-old son Louis D. Brown.
Chaplain Chéry has extensive experience training public health professionals, law enforcement officials, doctors, and faith leaders to better serve families impacted by murder. Her goal is to transform society’s response to homicide so that all families are treated with dignity and compassion, regardless of the circumstances.
Her publications for families of murder victims and the providers who serve them include “Always in My Heart: A Workbook for Grieving Children” (2011) and the “Survivors Burial and Resource Guide” (2013), which is translated in Spanish, Cantonese, Cape Verdean Kriolu, and Haitian Creole. In 2005, Chaplain Chéry co-authored “Homicide Survivors: Research and Practice Implications,” an article published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine in 2005.
In 2012. Chaplain Chéry earned her Master of Science Degree in Biblical Studies, Theology and Leadership through an online course at Global Exchange Christian University in 2021. She holds honorary Doctorate Degrees from Regis College and Mount Ida College, and an honorary Doctorate of Ministry from the College of the Holy Cross. She was ordained as a senior chaplain with the International Fellowship of Chaplain, Inc. She is a Lady of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, the highest honor bestowed by Pope John Paul II on a lay Catholic.
Her greatest accomplishments are being a Minister of God’s Peace and the mother of Louis, Alexandra and Allen, and the grandmother of Alexander, Adriel, and Amani.
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