Patricia Rust

Patricia Rust started her career as a child model. She was one of four Ivory Soap Girls and has also been Miss Minolta Camera and one the Budweiser Girls. She has also hosted several syndicated magazine shows and a morning show. After attending UCLA, she worked as a travel writer and spa reviewer for several magazines. She later completed the Comedy Writing Program at the American Film Insitute, where she won the Sketch Comedy Writing Competition. She was hired by NBC as a sitcom writer and won their in-house award for the Best Network Comedy Writer in 1990. In the late 1990s, she turned her attention towards children's projects. She developed "Rusty," an animated children's series for the Fox Kids Network as part of a development deal. Her illustrated children's literacy book, "The King of Skittledeedoo" has been praised by First Ladies across the country. In 2000, Ms. Rust founded The Rust Foundation for Literacy, a non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging literacy in children. She is currently Chairman of the organization and a literacy advocate for the "Los Angeles Times." She has traveled the world spreading her literacy message to over 100,000 children.