Patrick is a graduate student researcher (GSR) in the Low-Wage Work Program and a current Ph.D. student in sociology at UC Davis. His research focuses on the intersection of public policy, inequality, and organizations, with the goal of identifying policies that can promote greater equity within labor markets. He has experience designing and administering surveys, as well as applying qualitative methods and natural language processing (NLP) techniques to study large volumes of text.

Before starting graduate school, Patrick worked as a senior business analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and as a policy and markets analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he contributed to the Survey of Primary Dealers and Survey of Market Participants. Patrick holds a bachelor’s degree in finance with a minor in economics from Santa Clara University.