Patricia Lynne Duffy (Pat Duffy) is a retired United Nations staff member, former instructor for the UN Language and Communications Unit. She taught work-related and language skills, including Report Writing and Presentation Skills, both before and after retirement. Based at UN headquarters in New York, she conducted staff training at multiple duty stations, including Addis Ababa, Arusha, Entebbe, Kigali, Monrovia, Nairobi, and Port-au-Prince.
Pat founded and led the UN Staff One Percent for Development Fund’s "Authors-for-Literacy" series, which featured distinguished writers such as Pulitzer Prize winners Elizabeth Strout and the late Oscar Hijuelos, novelist Paul Auster, poets Major Jackson and Cecilia Vicuña, UN historian Stephen Schlesinger, and Dag Hammarskjöld’s biographer Roger Lipsey. The series supported literacy initiatives in the Global South.
A published author, Pat wrote Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens: How Synesthetes Color Their Worlds, exploring synesthesia, and has contributed articles to various journals and online publications.
Pat is very pleased to be a member of the Rotary Club.