Miss US Italia Director: Pat Paolino Cruz of Pat Cruz Events

Miss US Italia Director, Pat Paolino Cruz is an Italian-American woman with a successful track record in event production spanning over three and a half decades. Her journey in the pageant industry commenced in 1991 as ‘Shooting Stars’. nationally sought after pageant photographer and makeup artist. She organized one of the earliest and largest Pageant Expos and Published The Pageant Consultant Quarterly Magazine for several years before it was acquired by Pageantry Magazine. In 2014. Pat initiated Miss RI Italia and allowed contestants to apply on a national level in 2017. Of Italian American heritage herself she is thrilled to be hosting this National event in her home state of Rhode Island.