Patrick Thimangu
Patrick Thimangu is the owner and master instructor of Arch Taekwondo. He opened the St. Louis-based school in 2009 after working as a journalist for nearly 15 years. Patrick is internationally certified as a 7th Degree Taekwondo blackbelt by the Kukkiwon in Seoul, South Korea. Patrick, a native of Kenya, came to the United States in 1990 for university education and earned a bachelor’s degree in Speech Communications, Journalism from Olivet Nazarene University and a master’s degree in Communications and Training-Media Communications from Governors State University. He began his journalism career at The Daily Journal Kankakee and later worked for the Associated Press in Indianapolis and the Dayton Business Journal in Ohio. Patrick and his wife Rachel moved to Missouri in 2002 to work as reporters for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Patrick later covered several beats at the St. Louis Business Journal until early 2009. The Thimangus are members of Central Reform Congregation and live in unincorporated St. Louis County with their children Benjie and Eva, and their cat Jack.
