Staff

Patrick Kirby joined Citizen Schools as Massachusetts State Executive Director in 2007, with over a decade of management experience in the corporate and nonprofit sectors. He is currently Executive Director for Massachusetts. Before joining Citizen Schools, Patrick spent five years managing Timberland's global volunteer programs as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility department. Over his five years, employee engagement increased globally by more than 800 percent. Prior to Timberland, Patrick briefly taught high school before spending five years at City Year, where he held a number of senior leadership roles at their founding Boston site and their national office. Patrick is a graduate of McGill University, where he received his BA in Political Science in 1995. He has served on the Board of Directors of GroundWork USA, The Brookings Institute's Building Bridges Task Force on International Volunteering and Service, and Volunteer NH!