Patrick Murphy joined First Nations in September 2023 serving as Administrative Assistant, at the New Mexico office. Prior to that, he was employed as the Rio Rancho campus director, Student Success with Central New Mexico Community College, where he served several programs and helped students w/ admissions, enrollment and course registration choices.
Murphy has over three decades of communications, business and tribal experience to tap into. Born and raised in the Southern portion of the Navajo Nation, his clans are born of the Blacksheep People Clan, for the Towering House People Clan.
After he completed his broadcast journalism studies at UNM, he quickly began his career covering Navajo Nation government for KOB-TV-Farmington, NM & KTNN-AM-Window Rock, Arizona (his hometown). He was the last American reporter to interview U.S. President Bill Clinton at Shiprock, New Mexico, in 2000. He was a regular in supporting Native news stories on NBC-New York, NBC-Washington, D.C., and syndicated TV programs like Unsolved Mysteries.
IN 2006, Murphy earned a director’s award for “Best Industrial” at the 30th American Indian Film Institute’s festival in San Francisco by telling the story of Indigenous self-determination while employed for Indian Country’s only multi-tribal, multi-regional federal corporation. After 11 years serving Alaska Natives/American Indians, he left to pursue his own business and created Remote Energy Corp. in Shiprock, NM, on the Navajo Nation. The objective was to provide clean energy solutions 20,000 homes that did not have electricity and running water. In his quest to improve living conditions, Patrick garnered praise by President Barack Obama at the first-ever White House Demo Day in 2015.
Patrick also gained customer service experience working for Fortune 500 companies Lockheed Martin, Verizon, and Apple Support in Albuquerque. But something was missing in his life, the connection with the Alaska Native / American Indian community.
He closed his business and pursued an opportunity to visit Navajo homesites in Apache County, AZ, San Juan County and McKinley County in NM working in Data collection. He was employed with the Nielsen Company in data collection before the pandemic shutdown. His role at Nielsen allowed him to recruit Navajo and Pueblo households and bring in over a quarter of a million dollars to Indigenous households.