Platform - Practice What You Preach

Platform ------ the dreaded word!  Thankfully, not all pageants require you to have a platform or cause to support.  However, when you do decide to promote or support a platform, the key is to practice what you preach! 

There is nothing worse that a pageant titleholder who says she's a spokesperson for this or ambassador for that, yet can't tell you anything about a national organization that supports the goal or any statistics or facts about a groups mission.  That's why I was very pleased to see these photographs of Miss International 2011 Ciji Dodds at the Library of Congress this past Presidents' Day, truly supporting her platform of Literacy by reading to children!

Oddly enough, there is even one of her flipping through the ancient......"card catalog".

Just remember - Platforms and Causes - go hard or go home!!!

America's Miss DC

Congratulations to Sarah Hillware, the new America's Miss District of Columbia

She is a junior at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs where she studies global public health.  After completing her Bachelor of Arts degree in 2013,  she will pursue both a Master of Public Health and a medical degree. She hosts an online radio show every Wednesday evening, highlighting local and global community efforts, entitled The Sarah Hillware Show.

Ambitious, passionate, intelligent and kind are some words that can be used to describe this year’s America’s Miss District of Columbia 2012, Sarah Hillware.