The Road to Miss America – Miss North Carolina McKenzie Faggart
Photo Courtesy: The Miss America Organization
The next contestant to be featured in our series, “The Road to Miss America,” is Miss North Carolina, McKenzie Faggart.
Age: 21
Hometown: Concord, North Carolina
Platform Issue: The S.A.F.E. Project
Talent: Lyrical Dance
Education: Studying Mass Communications at UNC Charlotte
Scholastic Ambition: To graduate from UNCC with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mass Communications
Greatest Non-Academic Achievement: Being crowned Miss North Carolina’s Outstanding Teen 2011
What I’ve learned from the Miss America Program: The best goal that I can set for myself is also the easiest: just be myself. I am grateful to be involved with an organization that promotes individuality.
My Motivation: The desire to be better today than I was yesterday.
As a result of being targeted in high school by fellow classmates who struggled with bullying others, I founded the S.A.F.E. project to help teach kids how to deal with emotionally damaging issues in their lives. These life experiences led me to create “The S.A.F.E. Project,” an advocacy program that encourages people to identify their own “safe place” and provide that safe space for others so that together we can support each other through community, accept who we are and those around us, forgive those who have wronged us, and evolve into a better self we can be proud of and confident within.
