08/17/2026
After a week of searching for all the right words, I’m left with just one: gratitude 🤍✨
I am forever grateful to have graced the Miss Black USA Pageant | Beauty Redefined | 📍🌍 stage and had the opportunity to showcase not only who I am, but also what our community can create when we come together.
A very special thank you to my family for loving, supporting, and uplifting me every step of the way. There is no me without all of you. To everyone who spoke words of encouragement, shared my content, showed up for me, or silently rooted me on—thank you. Your support means more than you know.
To my directors and my big sister queens, thank you for being just a call or text away as I navigated my journey to the national stage. Your guidance, love, and support carried me through.
This experience has truly been one of a kind, and I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. To all 21 of my sister queens, thank you for sharing your love and light throughout the week. You are truly the best sister queens a queen could ask for 👑!
And to our magnificent Miss Black USA 2026, Harmony, congratulations on a title so well deserved and so hard-earned. I am incredibly proud to witness you step into this next chapter, and I can’t wait to see all that you accomplish.
As I begin the completion of my reign, I do so with the mission of Paid in Full at the forefront of my mind: continuing to pave the way for young innovators, revolutionaries, and dreamers to know that their ideas, voices, and visions have a place in this world.
The journey to Miss Black USA is complete, but it is certainly not the end of the mission 🤍👑
