Michele Patrick Email & Phone Number

Arlington, Va, Us

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Career speechwriter for CMS Administrator: Write speeches, talking points, blogs, and other policy and creative pieces.

Create strategic communications materials to reach and engage external target audiences on issues ranging from Medicare to the ACA to COVID.Highlights:• Among those honored by Administrator “For an incomparable coordinated communications response related to the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Generated all executive communications for Conference Executive Director, including targeted and creative speeches, talking points, blogs, video scripts, and power point decks. Planned successful overall communications strategy for the first ever dual in-person and virtual WHCOA conference.

Prepared speeches, talking points, power points, etc. for CMS Administrator and Director of Communications in fast paced and demanding environment. Supervised strategic planning, media relations, studio, and partner relation groups.Highlights:• Received Administrator’s Health Insurance Marketplace Award for 2014 for developing brand and written materials for the new Coverage to Care initiative.• Wrote talking points for daily press briefings during 1st ACA open enrollment.

Wrote all remarks and other creative material for Commissioner, including for White House blog, on a variety of food and drug safety issues.

Prepared keynote speeches, ceremonial remarks, articles, university updates, op-eds, etc. for external and internal audiences that furthered President’s vision.

Supervised team of speechwriters and speechwriting interns. Created all keynote addresses for the President, as well as a range of ceremonial remarks, academic pieces, policy speeches, university community updates, etc., which captured President’s voice, and which were lauded by listeners ranging from Pulitzer Prize finalist, Cynthia Ozik, to the United Kingdom Ambassador to the U.S.

Official spokesperson for Institute. Undertook all communications planning for the Institute. Created all press and public relations materials, including speeches, articles, press releases, newsletter copy, and presentations until Institute’s closing.Highlights: • Award of Excellence in U.S. APEX 2002 Publication Awards. Over 1,000 entries in the speechwriting category, nine speeches were recognized.• Manager for yearly State of Aging, a Merck signature publication.

Wrote well-received international and domestic keynote speeches, policy addresses, ceremonial remarks, articles, and op-eds for Secretary on a range of health and health policy issues, for forums ranging from Harvard Medical School to the Parliament of New Zealand. Special speechwriting expertise in the area of infectious disease.Highlights: • Wrote articles for Science Magazine, New England Journal of Medicine, etc. • Wrote keynote for the preeminent international infectious disease conference of 1998; speech published in the Journal of Emerging Infectious Disease.

Created all official and political speeches and related materials, including video scripts, op-ed pieces, floor statements, feature articles, etc.

Managing Director'S Office

Official spokesperson and press liaison for the Managing Director’s Office. Wrote all speeches for the Managing Director, the City’s highest-ranking appointed official, as well as press releases, feature articles for trade newspapers, media advisories, video scripts, etc., for Managing Director’s Office.Highlights:• One speech chosen to be placed in the Pennsylvania Historical Society Archives.

Masters Degree, Government Administration

Fulbright Scholar, Economics/Eastern European Studies

Was one of only five undergraduates, nationwide, to win a Fulbright Fellowship to the United Kingdom.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Economics/History, Magna Cum Laude

United States Collegiate National Champion in Impromptu Speaking and National First Runner-up in Extemporaneous Speaking in 1985. Fourth.