Patrick O’Connor

Executive Director

Patrick O’Connor is a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, Politico and The Hill. At Politico, he covered the debate around, and passage of, the Affordable Care Act. He came to Washington in 2001 as a member of the team that launched ESPN’s “Pardon the Interruption.” A Seattle native, Patrick has a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor’s from Northwestern University.