Patrick joined a Native non-profit that is committed to higher education.  Murphy has plenty of Communications/Business/Tribal experience to tap into. Born and raised on the Navajo Nation, his clans are DibeLizhin/Kinyaanii. After he completed his broadcast journalism studies at UNM, he quickly began his career covering Navajo Nation government for KOB-TV-Farmington & KTNN-AM-Window Rock, AZ (his hometown). He was the last American reporter to interview U.S. President Bill Clinton at Shiprock, NM in 2000. After hitting the jackpot by meeting his beautiful wife in a Las Vegas, NV casino, they decided to make their home in Albuquerque, where they were both employed at a tribally-owned self-insured risk pool. After spending a decade serving over 350 tribes/Alaska villages in marketing, He worked back on the Navajo Nation in clean energy, garnering praise 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.

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But something was missing in his life, the connection with the Native American community.

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He was employed with the Nielsen Company in data collection before the pandemic shutdown. His role at Nielsen allowed him to recruit Navajo households in Arizona and New Mexico. He enjoyed also working on Pueblo lands such as Zuni, Laguna, Jemez to name a few.

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Patrick is working on a degree in Business Management online and has been selected to be included on the president’s list.

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He worked as an electric grip and production assistant. Murphy has appeared in BG work on: 

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• Preacher (TV Series) 

• Better Call Saul (TV Series, credited)

• Graves (TV Series, credited)

• The Night Shift (TV Series)

• In Plain Sight (TV Series)

• Ideal Home

• Sicario

• Two Men in Town

• We're The Millers

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His Navajo tribal clans are:

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• Born of the Blacksheep People clan (DibéLizhíní nishlí)

• For the Towering House People clan (Kinyaa'áanii baashaashchiin) *first Original clan

• Maternal Grandfather: Bitter Water People clan (Tódích'ii'nii da shicheii) *first original clan

• Paternal Grandfather: Tree Clamp People clan (Tsín Síkaadnii da shinalí)

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The Murphy family are generations of Navajo cowboy ranchers who hail from Fort Wingate, New Mexico on the Navajo Allotted lands.  They received the first Spaniard horses in the canyons of the Zuni Mountains located just south of Fort Wingate, Exit 36 on Interstate 40 just west of the City of Gallup, New Mexico.

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His Marianito relatives reside in Churchrock/Pinedale, on the Navajo Nation where his Cheii was Frank Marianito, Navajo Code Talker, United States Marine Corp, Sixth Marine Division, in the Pacific Theatre.

 

Murphy has hundreds of relatives who reside on the Arizona portion of the reservation North of Exit 357 on Interstate 40, near the New Mexico stateline; they live in towns called Oaksprings, Lupton, Cornfields, Sawmill, & St. Michaels.

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