Patricio Andrés Quinlan-Adame is a Policy Scholar for Secure and Sovereign Texas at the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
The son of a former FBI Special Agent and Diplomat from Upstate New York and a devout Catholic mother from northern Mexico, Patricio Andrés was raised overseas, came to the U.S. as a teenager, graduated from The School Without Walls HS in Foggy Bottom, D.C., and completed a Cognitive Psychology research internship at George Washington University. He received a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Systematic Theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville, spoke at the United Nations as a representative of the International Solidarity & Human Rights Institute, and spent time discerning religious life at a Benedictine Monastery where his appreciation for law and legislation took root in the ordered liberty of the monks.
Subsequently, he worked in Bi-National Economic Development and Policy Advocacy on the border in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, began his PhD in Comparative Constitutional Law with the University of Navarra, and most recently did research in Guadalajara, Mexico, at the University of Notre Dame Law School, and in the Young Leaders Program at the Heritage Foundation. His research, along the lines of Jurisprudence and Aesthetics, engages with Alexis De Tocqueville, Thomas Aquinas, Francisco De Vitoria, Anacleto Gonzalez Flores, and Dietrich Von Hildebrand. He is currently translating a book from Spanish into English written by a 20th century Spanish Dominican friar that is tentatively titled The People and The Governing at the Service of the Common Good.