50 Remarkable Alumni: Telling his story was terrifying but liberating for Harrison Mooney

50 Remarkable Alumni: Telling his story was terrifying but liberating for Harrison Mooney

For Harrison Mooney, the question wasn’t if he would write his story. It was when.  “I could read before I started school, and my goal from a young age was to write books,” he recalls.   That story was greatly influenced by his experience growing up as a Black adoptee in a fundamentalist Christian white family in Abbotsford. “I always felt that my story had to be told, that I needed to make myself known,” Harrison says. “I felt that I did not re…