Patricia (Pat) Waak is the Chair of the Colorado Democratic Party. She also is a member of the executive committee of the Democratic National Committee and the Association of State Democratic Chairs.

Pat's political credentials are long and numerous dating back to her first campaign in 1964. She has worked on Presidential, U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representative and Gubernatorial campaigns. Those credentials include serving as the Deputy Campaign Manager for Sargent Shriver's 1976 presidential campaign. She was appointed by President Carter to the U.S. Agency for International Development during his administration. And she has volunteered for every Democratic Presidential campaign over the past 44 years.

Pat spent 17 years at the National Audubon Society where she headed the Population and Habitat campaign. Her management experience includes several years as Assistant Director for the Center for Population and Family Health at Columbia University. Pat also was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Brazil.

Pat served as a member of the U.S. delegation to the 1994 U.N. International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and was the U.S. Focal Point for the 1999 ICPD plus Five Conference in The Hague, Netherlands. For eleven years, she chaired the population and environment technical committee for the Commission on Environmental Strategies and Planning (CESP) of the World Conservation Union-IUCN. She is the executive producer of video films including the award winning "Finding the Balance" and is the author of a number of publications, including her two book: "Planet Awakening" and "My Bones are Red."

Pat was first elected on March, 5, 2005 as Chair of the Colorado Democratic Party. During her tenure, Colorado has maintained its Democratic majorities in the State House and Senate, add a U.S. House of Representatives seat in CD7, elected a Democratic Governor and state treasurer. She is dedicated to building on the momentum of the Democratic Party throughout the state.