Patty Sullivan has worked extensively in communications, both as a journalist and a public relations professional in Alaska. She's delivered Tundra Drums newspapers out of the back of a cab in Bethel, produced radio for National Public Radio features from her home KSKA bureau in Palmer, and wrote newspaper articles about salmon, while boating to villages along the Yukon River with a governor when a foreign fishing vessel blockade took place.

More recently, for nearly four years, she led the effort to establish a communications office and the first social media channels for the Alaska Department of Law. Sullivan also worked as a deputy press secretary for Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, where she jointly led press conferences and started FirstHand, a podcast on timely conversations with his Cabinet. For an energy company and its Alaska business unit, she started their first internal podcast, Farthest North. As Communications Director for the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, she served for 13 years, leading crisis communications during several disasters including fire, flood, and cyberattack.

She earned a master's in Journalism from U.C. Berkeley and a bachelor's in English and Spanish from U.C. Davis. She's lived in Kodiak, Bethel, Anchorage, Palmer, and Wasilla. The outdoors have lured her to snowshoe miles to a hot spring, fatbike to glaciers, and stock the winter freezer with sockeye.

She seeks to provide clear, helpful communications to Alaskans on matters of Fish & Wildlife.