Partnerships & Communications
Sarina Patterson
Communications Manager
spatterson@aiddata.org

Summary
Sarina Patterson is AidData's Communications Manager. She previously served as a Communications Associate and then Communications Specialist on the Partnerships and Communications team. Sarina works to increase the lab's reach and visibility by publicizing and promoting its unique activities. She writes, ghostwrites, and edits for AidData's blog, The First Tranche, and creates content for its web and social media presence. She shepherds AidData's last-mile publication process, editing its studies and flagship reports. She also produces report covers, data visualizations, maps, and interactive dashboards using GIS and other software.
Sarina holds a B.A. in Government from Harvard, with a secondary in East Asian Studies, a Spanish language citation, and language coursework in Korean, Farsi, and Icelandic; she also studied abroad at Seoul National University for Korean. While at AidData, she has taken courses at William & Mary in GIS, remote sensing, geovisualization and cartographic design, conservation GIS, science writing, ocean remote sensing, and Chinese. Previously, Sarina worked as the Managing Director of Marketing for Harvard Student Agencies, the largest student-run corporation in the world, and as a Project Management Intern for Carbon Recycling International, an Icelandic renewable energy company.
Education
B.A., Government, Harvard University