Sabina Clarke has over 20 years of experience in public relations, writing, and special events coordination. She has worked for Philadelphia International Airport and the Free Library of Philadelphia. She freelances as a writer for several publications. Some of her accomplishments include producing an art book commemorating 1916 that is now in a university collection, coordinating concerts and talks on Irish history and culture, and serving as an adjunct professor teaching public relations. She holds memberships in public relations organizations and has served on nonprofit boards.

1. Sabina Clarke , Public Relations, Writing, Special Events
14 W. Highland Avenue REAR Philadelphia Pa 19118
215-509-2345 (home/office) (215) 908-7960 (cell) Twitter@sabinapatti
Professional Qualifications
2000-2005 Philadelphia International Airport
Special Events Production Coordinator/ Public Relations Specialist/speechwriter for Aviation Director Charles Isdell
1989-2000 Free Library of Philadelphia Public Relations Specialist and Special Events Coordinator / speechwriter
for President and Director of Free Library Elliot Shelkrot
Freelance Writer
The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, Art Matters (Montgomery Newspapers), the Chestnut Hill
Local – * Contributor to Irish Edition.com (print & online) from 1991 to 2017
2016 Grant from the Irish Government/ Produced & Created “Philadelphia Artists and Philadelphia Actors
Remember 1916 in Art & Words”… Last Words Booklet/ created and edited-now in permanent collection/McGarrity
Collection at Villanova University
2015 Brothers on the Battlefield Concert with Rodney Marsalis & The Philadelphia Big Brass / Temple University
Arts Center
2014-2012 Press contact for Ed Moloney, Director of the Boston College Belfast Project & researcher Dr Anthony
McIntytre. This case garnered national & international press attention with appeals to the United States Supreme
Court and the High Court of Belfast
2013 Irish mystic Lorna Byrne at St. Paul’s Church in Chestnut Hill: attended by more than 600 people; initiated,
coordinated, & did press
2012 The Philadelphia Premiere of Pink Smoke Over the Vatican & talk by 2010 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Roy
Bourgeois
2011/ Exhibit Curator & Writer/ The Free Library of Philadelphia “Celebrate Philadelphia Performers”
2011 An Afternoon with Roy Bourgeois, founder of the SOA watch at Friends Center. 15th
& Cherry in Philadelphia
2008 Press Conference at National Press Club in Washington, D.C.. sponsored by non-profit People Safe in Rollovers
prior to Senate Hearing
2008 original one-man play The Purgatory Diaries of Jason Miller starring Robert Hughes at Commodore Barry Club
in Philadelphia
Arts Center
2007 * Concert at Trinity Church on Rittenhouse Square featuring Rodney (Mack) Marsalis & the Philadelphia Big
Brass
2006 National Launch of Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform, ILIR, at Hyatt Hotel in Philadelphia/ worked with Irish
Embassy in Washington, D.C. and the Irish Consulate in New York
2006 * Concert in Irvine Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania featuring saxophonist Branford Marsalis, classical
trumpeter Rodney (Mack) Marsalis and Time for Three
2005/ Adjunct Professor/ Public Relations/ The Comey Institute at St. Joseph’s University
2006 National Launch of Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform, ILIR, at Hyatt Hotel in Philadelphia
Professional Memberships
Philadelphia Public Relations Association, PPRA
Public Relations Chair 1992-1993
American Women in Radio and Television, AWRT Tri-State Chapter
Publicity Chair 2003-2004
National Exhibits by Blind Artists (NEBA)
Board Member and Publicity Chair since 1993
Pen & Pencil
Awards
1990 Pepperpot Award, Public Relations Society of America, PRSA
1995 Better Business Award Free Library of Philadelphia
1998 Plaque Presentation from the Federation of Irish-American Societies of the Delaware Valley for promotion
of commemorative Famine Walk at Penns’ Landing that garnered local. National and international press
Clients include: People Safe in Rollovers Foundation, National Exhibit by Blind Artists, NEBA West Philadelphia
Cultural Alliance, WPCA, Federation of Irish American Societies of the Delaware Valley , AFSCME District Council
47, Irish Immigration & Pastoral Center , Episcopal Peace Fellowship, Boston College Belfast Project et al
Writing Portfolio : Feature stories, Op-ed pieces, Interviews, Book reviews
Education
B.A. Chestnut Hill College
Temple University MED
*Blurbs on the following paperback publications: Are You Somebody by Nualla O’Faolain, Chocolat by Joanne Harris,
Evening Class by Maeve Binchy , The Expected One by Kathleen McGowan , The Famine Plot by Tim Pat Coogan
*References and Writing samples upon request