Linda Patch is Director of Marketing and Communications for the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction and Executive Editor of The Northern Light magazine. In 2016, she led the largest study and research project on Freemasonry done in 20 years. The findings are the basis of The Path Forward initiative, a comprehensive marketing and outreach initiative to reinvigorate and promote Freemasonry with the honor and dignity it deserves. The campaign has spread throughout the country, and internationally. Ms. Patch has been a marketing professional for 30 years, and involved with the Scottish Rite in various capacities since 1991 through her marketing business which she closed to join the Scottish Rite full time five years ago. Her husband Keith is a 32nd Degree Mason, and a member of Simon W. Robinson Lodge in Lexington, Massachusetts.