in Lafayette, Indiana.Patrick has written extensively on social, political, and energy policy topics. He previously worked as a senior electrical engineer at Caterpillar, Inc.
Patrick is a principal at UGI Energy Services, LLC, a diversified energy services firm in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, where he lives with his family. He earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1995 and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in 2003. After graduating from Donetsk, Patrick immigrated to America, where he initially taught Russian and math in public schools in Buffalo, New York. He traveled extensively throughout Eastern and Western Europe and became one of the few people with firsthand knowledge of ordinary life on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Patrick resided in the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991, during the historic perestroika era, when President Mikhail Gorbachev introduced the reforms that ultimately led to the breakup of the Soviet Union. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and also completed a certification program to become a Russian language teacher. After completing secondary school, he attended university in the former Soviet Union, studying electrical engineering at Donetsk National Technical University in the then Soviet republic of Ukraine. Patrick Asare was born and raised in Ghana. Patrick's amazing story offers insights, hope, and inspiration to others who face astronomical odds. Teaching in inner-city high schools alerted him to the particular challenges faced by America's urban Black youth. He was raised by loving and supportive parents and lived in a society where race was not an issue. Patrick's travels and adventures taught him that, regardless of his hardscrabble childhood, he was a lucky man. Finding his way to the United States, he taught Russian and math and eventually obtained a superb education from top American universities. He graduated from an elite secondary school and earned his engineering degree in the Soviet Union during the perestroika era. Despite major setbacks, he kept his eye on the prize. During school vacations, he toiled in a jungle farm teeming with poisonous snakes and insects.ĭedicating every stolen moment to study, Patrick passed the common entrance exam with flying colors. Numerous obstacles stood in the way of Patrick's yearning for higher knowledge, including gnawing hunger, lack of sleep, and backbreaking daily chores.
No one in the village aspired to be educated beyond middle school.
His family was so large and impoverished that not even the earnings from crushing hard work could buy enough food to fill their bellies. Patrick Asare was born and raised by illiterate parents in the remote Ghanaian village of Boadua.
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