Patrick Bascio is a retired Roman Catholic priest, lecturer and writer with a doctorate and two master's degrees in an array of social science fields. He has worked internationally on human rights campaigns and has been the Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister of Grenada and that country's representative and Counselor to various United Nations committees. In addition, he is the Former Director of the Salve Regina University Master's Program in Humanities and the Founder and Director of the PhD Program. His teaching duties have included the University of the West Indies (Port of Spain, Trinidad) and Umbwe College (Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania).

His publications include The UN Was My Parish (1979), Building a Just Society (1981), The Failure of White Theology: A Black Theological Perspective (1994), and Gorbachev and the Collapse of the Soviet Communist Party (1994), with co-author Evgueny Novikov, former member of Soviet Central Committee and high-level defector.