Building pathways from opportunity to shared impact.

Roots and responsibility

Patrick was born and raised in Dago Kogelo Village in western Kenya. He learned early that access to education, healthcare, transportation, technology, and economic opportunity is shaped by systems—and that where formal systems fall short, families and communities often become their own infrastructure.

A scholarship enabled him to attend United States International University–Africa in Nairobi. The opportunity carried a simple expectation: help another young person access education. That commitment became central to his understanding of leadership and shared responsibility.

“The village may be limited in money, but never in wisdom.”

Learning to build

Patrick’s early experiences included community service, a youth medical and sports initiative, technology education, entrepreneurship, volunteer transportation, and international partnership coordination. Before university, he gained practical business experience sourcing and supplying fish to urban markets—learning firsthand how pricing, logistics, relationships, and distribution turn opportunity into value.

His Information Systems education later strengthened his ability to understand how information, people, processes, and tools work together inside organizations.

From classrooms to institutions

After moving to the United States, Patrick’s work expanded across secondary education, higher education, AmeriCorps programming, nonprofit leadership, organizational consulting, and social entrepreneurship.

He taught business education at EVSC Academy for Innovative Studies—Diamond from 2012 to 2015. He later supported social innovation, experiential learning, student venture development, and institutional changemaking at the University of Evansville and Rollins College. Across his higher-education leadership from 2013 to 2019, he helped support more than 150 student ventures and projects alongside faculty, staff, students, and community partners.

Building continuity

Today, Patrick is Founder and CEO of Young InnoPreneurs, Founder and President of Friends of Dago, and a strategic consultant supporting mission-driven organizations. His advisory work with YouthRoots has included organizational capacity, partnerships, sustainability, and business-development thinking surrounding YouthScan.

Across these roles, his purpose remains consistent: help people understand systems, build their capabilities, move ideas into action, and extend opportunity to others.

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