Patricia Duff

The organization puts on forums, panels and special events to encourage greater citizen participation in civic life and the political process. Speakers have included national leaders and experts on public policy issues such as Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski on foreign policy; Nouriel Roubini, Alan Blinder, Peter Peterson on economic issues; Governors Kathleen Sebelius and Ed Rendell; Senators Mitch McConnell and Amy Klobuchar on domestic issues, among many other speakers and topics.<br /><br /> Immediately after graduation from college, Duff first worked on the House Select Committee on Assassinations as Special Assistant to the Chief Counsel, Senior Researcher, and Public Information Officer. Duff then worked with former Presidential speech writer, John McLaughlin, to produce his live political talk radio show. She left to work for the re-election campaign of President Jimmy Carter at the Democratic National Committee and with presidential pollster Pat Caddell. Following her work on that campaign, she was made Vice President of Caddell's firm and worked on many political statewide campaigns and corporate marketing campaigns until she was hired by Bob Squier to join the Squier-Eskew consulting firm as Vice President. Read Less