Pat leads all of the university’s marketing and communications efforts, including championing the university's brand, publishing its award-winning alumni magazine, and protecting Pitt-Bradford's image and reputation. She also serves as the university’s spokeswoman and is a member of the President's Cabinet.

Before coming to Pitt-Bradford, she was a newspaper reporter and editor for 15 years. For four years, she was a journalism instructor at Pitt-Bradford, introducing her students to the wild, wacky and wonderful world of journalism.

In her spare time, she reads as much fiction as she can get her hands on, runs and writes -- though not simultaneously because that definitely would result in a trip to the emergency room. And, on weekends, she's in her kitchen, waist deep in chocolate chips, flour, butter and cream cheese so when one of the guys in her house asks, "What is there sweet to eat?" she can quickly offer up a tasty treat.

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Her essay titled “The Card” was published in The New York Times bestselling book Wisdom of our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons by the late Tim Russert, who was NBC’s Washington, D.C., bureau chief and moderator of “Meet the Press.” For the past two years, she has been on the local lecture circuit, telling audiences the story behind "The Card."

In 2003, she received a Silver Award in the CASE District II Accolades Program for the university’s alumni magazine Portraits. And, as a newspaperwoman, Pat received four writing awards from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers' Association for investigative reporting, news writing and feature writing. She is also an honorary life member of Pitt-Bradford’s chapter of the Society of Collegiate Journalists.