Leather Leadership Conference, Inc.

Pat is a California native, a Catholic school graduate and a retiree from the US Air Force. She now lives in the Bay area after being in Albuquerque, New Mexico for 11 years. She is Training Manager at a LGBT non-profit in San Francisco and is getting settled into being back by the bay!

She discovered the leather community in 1979 but stayed in the background until she retired from the Air Force in 1993. She got involved with the San Jose/Bay Area leather community and has held the titles of Ms San Jose Leather 1995 and International Ms Leather 1995. Her awards include the Pantheon of Leather Woman of the Year award as well as other regional and local awards for her work in the community over the years.

Pat founded LeatherWomen United in 1996 to help local communities organize on a national level around issues such as hunger, women's health and voter registration and to promote networking inside and outside of the leather community. She recently completed a grass roots project called "Consent Counts" which is gathering information nationwide about issues regarding defining consent within BDSM.