Hope Patterson

Hope Patterson is a Project Leader at Partners for Public Good (PPG), supporting the organization’s infrastructure portfolio with a focus on environmental sustainability. Prior to joining PPG, she supported the Procurement Excellence Network at the Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab (GPL), including coaching member governments to tackle challenges through virtual sprints and executive education programs. Before joining the GPL, Hope served as the Deputy Director of Stakeholder Engagement and later as the Governance Operations Officer at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), where she served as liaison to the authority’s governance board and oversaw a large-scale effort to improve system safety. 

Hope holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Harvard College.