Patrick has spent his career working in government and the nonprofit sector focused on labor and economic policy. During the Biden administration, he served as the principal deputy assistant secretary for policy at the US Department of Labor, where he helped manage the department’s regulatory agenda and forward-looking policy development, including on issues related to AI. Previously, Patrick was a policy advisor in the Labor Department’s Office of the Chief Economist during the Obama administration, and a senior policy advisor in the Executive Chamber of the Governor of New York. Most recently, he was a Senior Fellow at the Budget Lab at Yale. He has also conducted research at the Center for American Progress, at the Economic Policy Institute, and with the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality, among other organizations. His research has been covered by the New York Times, the Washington Post, Bloomberg, PBS, and NPR, among other outlets. He received a BS in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University and a MSc in migration studies from the University of Oxford.