Terry FitzPatrick

Writer | Filmmaker | Trainer
Spokesperson | Strategist

FitzPatrick currently serves as communications and advocacy director for a Washington-based nonprofit, Free the Slaves.

He oversees the organization's advocacy activities with Congress and federal agencies, including lobbying for stronger laws and increased funding to confront human trafficking around the globe.

He is also the organization's chief communications strategist, media relations officer, spokesperson, principal writer and managing editor.

He supervises the publication of research reports, social media posts, website content, blog articles and video documentaries.

FitzPatrick has directed television, radio, newspaper and Internet training projects in Asia, Africa and eastern Europe.

He has authored a training manual for television and radio journalists covering business news, and has co-authored a radio newsroom handbook.

He has conducted interview training workshops for corporate executives and members of parliament.

FitzPatrick has been a guest lecturer at universities in the United States — including Harvard, Vassar, Oberlin, and George Washington universities.

He has served as a visiting instructor in Africa — including Stellenbosch University the University of Pretoria in South Africa and Makerere University in Uganda.

As a journalist, FitzPatrick has covered a wide range of stories: from economic development in Africa, to death row executions in Texas, to chaos in war-torn Kosovo, to the global challenges of AIDS. He has filmed a behind-the scenes history of the New York Stock Exchange, and has traveled to Antarctica to cover climate change. He has produced short films about human trafficking in 12 countries.

Many of FitzPatrick’s radio documentaries have been heard on National Public Radio, where he served as National Affairs Correspondent & Senior Editor for the environmental news program Living on Earth. While based in Africa, he covered business news for Marketplace & general news for The World (PRI/BBC) & Voice of America.

His television work has aired on Discovery Channel, History Channel, Fox & PBS — where he served as a contributor to the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. Print articles have appeared in the Dallas Morning News, Texas Observer & Columbia Journalism Review. Online articles have appeared in Huffington Post.

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