Patrick approaches civic life through dialogue, debate, and deliberation: the conviction that structured, good-faith conversation across difference produces better decisions and stronger communities. Over five years he has built the toolkit, and the reflexes, to engage people as citizens rather than voters, in rooms where nobody is trying to win an election.
Not currently taking facilitation work.
Patrick is on staff with a partisan campaign through November 2026. Nonpartisan deliberation only holds if the facilitator isn’t working one side of the same election, so the practice is paused rather than blended. The record below stands, and facilitation, interactive models, and qualitative analysis are available again after the cycle.
SENIOR ASSOCIATE · AUG 2023–JAN 2026
Center for Public Deliberation, CSU
Facilitated over 30 small and large public deliberations on complex local issues, applying conflict management, collaborative problem-solving, and stakeholder engagement.
CO-FOUNDER & CO-PRESIDENT · AUG 2024–JAN 2026
CSU Political Review
CSU Political Review set out to be a convener across political stripes, creating a sense of belonging for students who find themselves at odds with one another.
CO-FACILITATOR · MAY 2026 · UCCS
Pragmatic Conservatism in Blue America
A value card activity drawn from Shirley Peel’s mayoral platform. The goal wasn’t persuasion. It was genuine curiosity.
SEPTEMBER 2025
Against Political Violence, for Free Speech
When political violence came for campus conservatives, one nonpartisan student club refused to let its peers go quiet in fear. What followed was eight long days.
RESEARCH ASSISTANT · MAY–OCT 2024
The Rural Action Project, CSU
Interviewed rural Latino residents in Morgan County, Colorado to evaluate community values, needs, and institutional capacities.
FORMAT · CSU POLITICAL REVIEW
Seats at the Table
The same problem every student government election runs into: candidates give speeches, students scroll past them, and nobody actually talks to anybody.
RESEARCH · SYDNEY · 2025
Urban and Social Planning
A semester spent on one question: who do preservation and public space actually end up serving? The terrace was never saved for the people it was built for.
TERM PAPER · 2022
What Is the Second Amendment?
Tracing the constitutional history of the Second Amendment through the Supreme Court’s own words.
Under development
Two things in progress. Neither is finished; both are close.
IN DEVELOPMENT · CONVERSATION GUIDE
After the Fraud
Minnesota is arguing about fraud. This packet is for the question after the argument: what should the safety net look like once the fraud is dealt with? Shared facts, five values that pull against each other, and three ways forward with their costs, in ninety minutes.
More soon.
IN DEVELOPMENT · SOFTWARE
Threshing Floor
The value card activity from Canopy Summit, built into software. Voter intelligence for conservative campaigns, not a turnout tool. Built for the hard rooms.
More soon. 🌾
