Patricia, Vaccarino: - Patricia Vaccarino is originally from Yonkers, New York. After college, she traveled across the country in a battered Chevy Impala on I-40 and up the California coast on Pacific Highway 101 to see America and landed in Seattle, where she worked as a paralegal in antitrust law, and later went to law school. She began writing professionally--articles, copy, scripts, and press releases and was asked by a film production company, Kaye Smith Productions (founded by Seattle businessman Lester Smith and Hollywood celebrity Danny Kaye), to do their Public Relations outreach-that was her start in P.R. Patricia Vaccarino owns Xanthus Communications, a national P.R. firm, and the media company, PR for People(R), where people share their news with the world. Patricia Vaccarino has written award-winning film scripts, press materials, content, books, essays and articles.