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Patrick Connors

Communications Specialist

Patrick Connors has twenty years of experience managing communication campaigns for human rights. This includes campaign and media work for grassroots community groups in Palestine and US Palestinian rights groups.

He also managed health, education, and economic development programs for eleven years in Egypt, Haiti, Mali, Morocco, and Palestine and provided shorter-term support to programs in numerous other countries in the Middle East and Africa. 

Patrick holds an MPA from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, an MA in International Relations from Yale, and a BA from Williams College. He speaks French and Arabic.

"Democracy remains the most effective way to tackle terror, stop bloodshed and political violence in Arab countries."

- JAMAL KHASHOGGI, Al-Arabiya, June 12, 2016

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