Pat applies creative ideas and action to lead and deploy networks of real people toward actual power and persuasion through story-telling and political organizing. In 2024, Pat led a $10M effort to elevate nonpartisan and Independent candidates, like US Senate candidate Dan Osbourne in Nebraska and Greg Kidd in Northern Nevada, seeking to test and learn how to build issues-based coalitions in conservative places.In 2023, Pat convened cross-sector investors and entrepreneurs innovating new sources of energy with policymakers on how to build renewable data centers and power grids.

Since 2022, Pat has represented Republican and Democratic business and technology leaders to fight for the rule of law and for free and fair elections; she works with best-in-class partners in California and nationally to advocate for responsible and safe AI legislation.

Pat's firm PR & Company worked with dozens of technology and biotech companies, foundations and nonprofits focused on scaling positive social impact and profits. In 2016, Pat sold PR & Company to Fenton, and co-founded Change Research, pioneering modern, affordable data science and polling strategies for candidates and causes.

In one political cycle, Change Research became the pollster of choice for Pod Save America, CNBC, KQED/NPR and dozens of media partners across the US ensuring that even the smallest campaign had access to up-to-the-minute insights.

Pat launched PR & Company after serving in high profile communications roles in Washington, DC at the National Governors' Association and National Women's Political Caucus. Pat came to California as the campaign press secretary for San Francisco Mayor Willie L. Brown, Jr. in 1995.