1. Sabina Clarke/Writing, Public Relations, Special Events
14 W. Highland Avenue, REAR, Philadelphia PA 19118
215-509-2345(office) 215-908-7960 Cell Twitter@sabinapatti ( Portfolio)
August 2015 Roy Bourgeois / keynote speaker at Worldwide Women’s’ Ordination
Conference in September in Philadelphia /ad placement for Bourgeois’ Open Letter to Pope
Francis/
July 2015 Interview w/ former Senator George Mitchell, Senator George Mitchell…Gentle
Persuasion –Crafting Peace Around the World online at Irish Edition.com
May 2015 Concert with 309 Express Band press coverage in local papers & First Booking in
September at Mermaid Inn
April 2015 Concert with Rodney Marsalis & the Philadelphia Big Brass “Brothers on the
Battlefield” press included The Phila Inquirer, podcast on KYW News Radio, feature story in The
Philadelphia Tribune, WRTI radio & various other news outlets
March 2014 Interview w/ Katie McGinty, Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Katie McGinty
On Living the American Dream & Her Race for the Governor’s Mansion
March 2015 Presentation of Passion for Peace Award to Irish Peace Activist Patricia
Campbell from the Middle East Study Group and the Episcopal Peace Fellowship. Press included
The Philadelphia Inquirer photographer at event
February 2015 Interview w/ author James Carroll / Catching Up with James Carroll Seventeen
Years Later online at Irish Edition.com
February 2015 Interview/ Exhibit Review / Jamie Wyeth Comes Home in Dazzling Career
Retrospective online at Irish Edition. com
March 2013 Initiated and organized an event with internationally known mystic and angel
communicator Lorna Byrne at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Chestnut Hill-more than 600
people attended this event—Lorna was interviewed by John Ostapkovich, KYW News Radio—
interview aired all day Saturday and Sunday—the day of the event
May 2012 Organized the Philadelphia Premiere of Pink Smoke Over the Vatican & talk by
2010 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Roy Bourgeois- placed op-ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer by
Roy Bourgeois
May 2012 to 2014 Press Contact for Ed Moloney, author and Director of the Boston College
Belfast Project & researcher Dr. Anthony McIntyre ( Ireland).
* This case garnered national and international press attention with appeals to the United
States Supreme Court and the High Court of Belfast
May 2011 An Afternoon with Peace Activist Roy Bourgeois initiated and organized this
event sponsored by the Episcopal Peace Fellowship, the Catholic Peace Fellowship and the
American Friends Service Committee-- press included KYW News radio interview with Roy
Bourgeois and placement of op-ed by Roy Bourgeois in The Philadelphia Inquirer
2. November 2011 Exhibit Curator & Writer/ Celebrate Philadelphia Performers, an exhibit at
The Free Library of Philadelphia. Press included TV, Radio, The Philadelphia, Inquirer, The
Philadelphia Daily News and local community papers
May 2011 The Purgatory Diaries of Jason Miller/ interview w /Bob Hughes/ secured 2 venues
for the production & promoted this one man play starring Jason Miller’s childhood friend
actor Robert Hughes
September 2009 First North American Tour of the Relic of Saint Mary Magdalene sponsored
by the Dominican Order, St. Baume, France.. PR newswire distribution to religion news outlets
July 2007 to June 2008 Washington, D.C. Created a national campaign for non-profit group
People Safe in Rollovers – see portfolio for campaign highlights on twitter@sabinapatti * Our
advocacy prompted a Senate Hearing on car roof strength standard FMVSS216 which resulted
in new safety standard that went into effect on all new cars manufactured in 2012—this
standard that had not changed since 1971
June 2008 / National Press Club, Washington, D.C. --arranged Press Conference & contacted
all D.C. news media / People Safe In Rollovers/non-profit advocacy group
May 2007 Tribute Concert/ Francis Johnson Famed African American Composer with Rodney
Mack Marsalis & The Phila Big Brass Band Irvine Auditorium University of Pa Press included
The Philadelphia Inquirer, KYW News Radio & many other news outlets
February 2006 Launch of Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform, ILIR, at Hyatt Hotel in
Philadelphia. Press coverage included feature in The Philadelphia Inquirer, interview with Niall
O’Dowd on WHYY Radio, Interview with Tom Conaghan on KYW News Radio, the Catholic
Standard & Times, Irish Echo & Irish Voice (New York), Irish Edition, Philadelphia
2005 Adjunct Professor, PublicRelations/ The Comey Institute, St. Joseph’s University
2004 AFSCME District Council 47 Public Relations Consultant
* Pepperpot Award / Public Relations Society of America, PRSA, in 1990
* Writing portfolio includes The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Philadelphia Daily News, Art
Matters, Irish American News (Chicago), Delaware County Magazine, the Chestnut Hill Local &
various other news outlets