National Queens 2020

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Meet Katheryn Kozee, America’s Elegant Miss, Jr. Pre-Teen 2020. Her platform, Kids Encouraging Kindness (KEK), has allowed her to serve in 5 states (Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and California) - by making over 200 masks for my local cancer center, hospital, and private donors. She is often found picking up trash in community parks (even when I travel), She collects toiletries and can tabs for the Ronald McDonald House, and aluminum cans to help her local humane society. She says, the best part of her platform is that she can encourage others to join her efforts. Why does Katheryn believe in community service? Because she believes age and size are just a number - it’s what we have to give, that comes from within, that makes us beautiful and leaders within our communities

When not serving her community, Katheryn uses her passion for performing on stage as a dancer - she’s danced with my studio for the past 4 years - anything from ballet, tap, and Jazz to pre-point and beyond. She’s performed in 6 Broadway style performances with her studio as well. She is a model, an aspiring artist (who loves recreating Bob Ross paintings when is he can), and is teaching her self to play the piano. 

Katheryn’s goals? They’re pretty simple for a kid her age - She wants build her platform to help others kids to be leaders who serve their communities. And then, when She grows up, she wants to be a lawyer, teacher, veterinarian and maybe one day work her way up to Miss America or Miss USA and beyond.

Born and raised in Nashville, Tn this little lady has a passion for bringing kindness to others. Kindness Like Confetti brings awareness to her state by showing others how to be kind. 

Competing in pageants for only 1 year before obtaining her first National title as America’s Elegant Miss she has impacted thousands throughout her home state. 

During 2020, her hometown was hit by a E3 tornado leave thousands without power and without hope. Stepping up in her community she help raise items such as food, blankets, assisting those in need, but most important showed true kindness. Weather it’s collecting American Girl Dolls for children from the E3 tornado that left empty hearts and hope of girls or bringing food to the elderly she sprinkling kindness every where she goes.

Katie Jean Davis from Nashville, Tennessee is currently America’s  Elegant Miss Jr . Teen 2020. She is the designer and owner of Charjean Couture designing attire for girls across the nation. Katie Jean’s designs will be featured in NYFW in Feb 2021 and Katie has been featured in several national commercials, print ads, and modeled for some of the nations top designers. 

Born at 21 weeks, she has a deep connection with Nurses For Newborns of Tennessee and has collected over 13,000 items Katies a little Angels and Nurses for Newborns. She has also served with Second Harvest Food Bank and Arbys to feed under privileged children. After school you will find her tutoring children at the Gallatin Shalom Zone and her summers are spent helpin the non profit with their day camp. For the second year, she has been chosen for the Tennessee Youth Urban Experience Leadership Team. 

Katie started pageants three years ago and has received numerous titles including being a Marc Defang Spokesmodel.

In her spare time, she is enjoying her travels throughout The United States, volunteering, updating her Instagram account, roasting marshmallows and hanging out with her friends. Facebook.com/KatiesLittleAngelsSupport #katieslittleangels, #katiedavismodel, #CharjeanCouture.

MaryAnn Bagwell is 16 years old and a sophomore in High school. She is a God loving, volleyball playing, karate doing, pageant girl who loves music and makeup.

She is a defensive specialist and libero for her high school volleyball team. She has been practicing Goju Ryu karate since she was 5 years old and was recently promoted to Rok Kyu. She is halfway to earning her Black Belt and is assistant instructor at her dojo. MaryAnn loves working with Ryan’s Making a Difference Outreach. Every Saturday morning Ryan, his father and several volunteers including MaryAnn, gather to feed the homeless of Bowling Green, KY. She has been working with them for about a year and finds this to be a very rewarding effort. MaryAnn is also an ambassador for Katie’s Little Angels with Katie Jean Davis, helping to provide support services to NICU families across the US. MaryAnn loves all kinds of music - everything from Classical to Opera and Heavy Metal to Hip Hop, but her favorite is 80’s Hair Bands. MaryAnn is an assistant makeup artist with K. Bagwell and assists with weddings, proms, senior portraits and even pageants.

MaryAnn has been competing in pageants for 2 years now and is very proud to be America’s Elegant Miss National Teenager 2020. Holding this title has allowed her to share her platform - Be Your Own Warrior. She created the Be Your Own Warrior Movement because she was once a shy, quiet and awkward young girl and through sports and pageants she learned that it is ok to just be yourself. You don’t have to fit anyone’s mold and that no one will fight for you like you will fight for yourself, but it is always good to have people there to lift and support you. 

Courtney Banks is no stranger to pageants. Growing up in Georgia she has enjoyed competing since a young age. Courtney’s passion is God, her family, and giving back to others. She enjoys travel, spending time with family and spending time with her friends. Currently, she is a CNA and spends her time working at the local hospital while enrolled full time in college to one day become a nurse.Growing up in a large family she learned at a young age about giving back to others.  Courtney feels so blessed to be able to reach young woman across the nation and teach them about reaching their dreams.

Brandi Jo is a proud wife, mom, author, speaker and business woman. She’s part of an online business, where she’s climbed up the ladder, and become one of the top grossing leaders in the company. Her makeup business allows her to use her skills as a licensed esthetician and cosmetologist and has opened doors for her to build confidence in women throughout the globe.

Brandi met her husband Michael, in 4th grade, where they sat across from one another. Both of them were too shy, and never spoke a word to one another. When Michael got sick with mono in the 4th grade, Brandi somehow, ended up getting it as well... Even though, they both swear they never kissed. This is still a mystery.

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Both of them went on to the same high school, but again, they never spoke a word to one another. 15 years later, Michael worked up the courage to send Brandi a friend request on Facebook. And after a few months, he mustered up the nerve to send her a Facebook private message, one that touched her heart, and changed both their lives. Michael quickly became a beacon for Brandi, during a time when she really needed a friend. And the rest was history. After 9 years of marriage, and they’re more in love than ever, and  Michael is still Brandi’s biggest fan-supporting her through every endeavor.

Brandi and Michael have a beautiful son named Randall. Having met (actually, re-met) her husband at the age of 32, and due to 21 years of damage that Brandi’s body endured- their funny, easy going, Mario-loving 7 year old son, Randall, was nothing short of a miracle from God.  

This is where Brandi’s story is unique. Like most of us, Brandi has had overcome many obstacles including: obesity, extreme hair loss, depression, post-partum, and an eating disorder (which consisted of 25 years of anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating). Brandi’s body had endured too much abuse, and therefore, Brandi lost most of her hair due to years of eating disorders. In 2017, Brandi went in to have an echocardiogram on her heart, that’s when everything changed. The doctor came in and said, “if you don’t get healthy and lose weight, you won’t get to see your son grow up!” After waiting so long to become a mother, Brandi decide “toDAY is the THE DAY!”

Brandi sat down and wrote out an accountability plan to change from the inside out. After seeking God’s counsel, Brandi pulled what she learned from the bible, therapy, Celebrate Recovery classes, and Overeaters Anonymous-and from it birthed her Crowning Confidence program. Brandi applied the program to her life, and she started changing. She found herself with a fresh outlook on life.

People started noticing, and asking ‘how did you do it?” Having been given a second chance at life, Brandi felt like Crowning Confidence was her gift to others!

Crowning Confidence is now a proven method that Brandi uses to teach women how to heal through any obstacle they face and find the crown inside their heart. Brandi teaches and empower others through her workshops, online classes, teaching at beauty schools, elementary and high schools her proven method. Her mission is to help every woman around the world and cure the epidemic of insecurity!

“When a woman is truly confident they can change the world!”

Brandi put her strategy to the ultimate test when she competed for the coveted title of Mrs. Americas Elegant Miss 2020, and won! She has just started her Mrs pageant journey, and will be competing in more pageants in the upcoming years. Brandi holds the title of Mrs Americas Elegant Miss 2020 

Brandi feels beyond blessed to have been crowned Mrs. America’s Elegant Miss 2020, something she would have never, in a million years, imagined possible. Brandi is excited to continue to teach and inspire men, women, and children all around the world to find their inner confidence!