Patricia McCafferty

Chief Public Affairs Officer

Phone: 978-934-3238

Fax: 978-934-3000

Office: Allen House

Email: Patricia_McCafferty

As Chief Public Affairs Officer, Patricia McCafferty oversees all University communications including marketing, publications, the website, media and government relations, special events, community relations and outreach, and broadcast and student media. In that role, she is also a member of the Chancellor's Executive Cabinet.

McCafferty has worked at the University for more than a decade, in two different stints, serving as a writer and editor from 1986 to 1992, prior to her return in 2001 as a Coordinator, then Director, of Media Relations, Executive Director of Communications and Chief Public Affairs Officer.

McCafferty has been a communications professional for more than 25 years, working as an award-winning newspaper reporter, press secretary and congressional office district director in addition to her experience at UMass Lowell.