As one of the  Coordinators, Patrick works with families and clients to help support New Frontiers’ mission.

Patrick is a graduate of the Macaulay Honors College at the College of Staten Island (CUNY) and Adelphi University’s Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program. He has an acute knowledge and interest in the art of writing, critical thinking, executive functions, and reading comprehension skills across all subjects. Before joining the New Frontiers team, Patrick tutored a diverse array of students in a broad range of majors, at Adelphi University’s Learning and Writing Center, including students in Adelphi’s Bridges Program. Since joining the New Frontiers team in 2016, Patrick has both directly worked with and overseen the supports of over 150 students and clients with various learning differences.

Patrick enjoys writing poetry, taking photographs of local Long Island parks and natural areas, gardening, playing basketball, and going to the beach in Cape May, New Jersey in the summertime. He has been to over 50 Bruce Springsteen concerts in his lifetime, has read every one of Kurt Vonnegut’s novels, can identify many of the tree species’ of eastern North America, and has traveled to Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Italy, and Russia.