Discovering a gift for writing changed the trajectory of my life.   Inspired by her work behind-the-scenes in the fashion industry Patrice Worthy started a weekly fashion column at the Indiana Daily Student. The column paved the way for the intrepid writer to become the longest running arts editor in IDS history and the first collegiate fashion editor to cover New York Fashion Week. As a result, Patrice was featured in the 2004 Women’s Wear Daily College Issue article “Just Write” highlighting her NYFW coverage. She then appeared in the WWD College Issue for two more years. Her work at the IDS culminated in Trends, the first fashion publication for the daily newspaper. She was then invited to speak at the December 2007 Neal Marshall Black Culture Center Graduation Ceremony and was selected to present on The History of Black Fashion at The Indiana University Hutton Honors College.     A lack of arts coverage in the Black community became a one-of-a-kind opportunity.   Graduating at the beginning of the 2008 financial crash that ravaged the publishing industry, her dreams of working at a prominent New York City magazine were dashed. Driven and self-motivated Patrice relocated to Atlanta, Ga. In 2013, the popularity of her blog at Skirt.com was the catalyst for Patrice to launch pworthy.com, a publication dedicated to Blacks in the high arts. As the publisher of the website, Patrice formed strategic relationships with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, The National Black Arts Festival (NBAF), Atlanta Ballet, the High Museum of Art, and the Atlanta Decorative Arts Center (ADAC). P.worthy.com was the first publication to cover the Atlanta Ballet’s lack of Black dancers, and pworthy.com broke the story when the first Black ballerina joined the company. By covering events such as Art Basel Miami and Miami Design Week, Patrice positioned the burgeoning Atlanta arts scene on the same level with national and international arts coverage. She interviewed actor Donald Glover, Broadway playwright George C. Wolfe, rapper and actor Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, rapper Big Boi - half of the duo Outkast, designer Iris Van Herpen, architect Phil Freelon, conductor Michael Morgan, artist Hebru Brantley, artist Kevin Cole, artist Fahamu Pecou, DJ Mustard, artist Amy Sherald, Founder of Black Tech Week and CEO of Pharrell Williams’ Black Ambition Felecia Hatcher, and many more.   As a result of her work, she was named a 2015 Arts Leader of Metro Atlanta by the Atlanta Regional Commission and was accepted into the Burnaway Arts Writer Mentorship Program. She was then asked to moderate a panel on the arts for Real Housewife of Atlanta Courtney Rhodes’ Dream Big Conference. Following the success of the Dream Big panel Patrice was invited to compose a blog for Americans for The Arts Blog Salon where she explored the possibilities of a creative relationship between the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Atlanta’s thriving rap scene. Covering International stories with an impact  In 2018 Patrice was sent to Israel to cover Olim from Atlanta relocating to Haaretz. There she interviewed United States Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. Later that year, she won a first place Simon Rockower Award for her coverage of Ethiopian Jews in Yok’neam, Israel. She went on to cover the 2019 Israeli elections producing a series of articles with interviews of Yuli Edelstein, Speaker of the Knesset. She was then accepted into the 2019 Diplomatic Program at Oranim College where she was immersed in Israeli culture while learning Israeli history and politics from former Israeli diplomats at the Mitvim Institute, The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies.     Writing stories that matter   In 2018, Patrice was tapped to write for The Guardian’s “Atlanta Week” City Series. She leveraged the opportunity to introduce the world to Atlanta’s Black LGBTQIA community and the “New Atlanta Renaissance” - a phrase she coined and a movement she nurtured with the pworthy.com platform. She continued to write for The Guardian where she contributed to the Our Unequal Earth series and became the lead contributor to the New Face of Small Business series profiling Black entrepreneurs. In 2022 she moderated a panel that brought the New Face of Small Business series to life at Pharrell Williams’ Mighty Dream Forum. Currently, Patrice works as a journalist writing for The Guardian and the BBC uncovering compelling stories to engage global audiences.