Following are a few of the contestants that will be competing for the national title in Orlando, Florida on Saturday, January 8th, 2022.

WASHINGTON, D.C., USA, December 24, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The following are a few of the contestants that will be competing for the national title of Miss Earth USA 2022 in Orlando, Florida on Saturday, January 8th, 2022, when the crown holders of each of the 50 states vie on stage to a live audience and judging panel for the first time in three years.

Mikala Joly
MISS RHODE ISLAND EARTH USA

During her reign as Miss Rhode Island Earth Mikala is thankful to have been able to encourage others to embrace and celebrate their individuality by helping them create art to promote social change, support, expression, information, and communication. Mikala has earned both her Girl Scout Bronze and Silver Awards for her volunteer service with multiple nursing homes around the state of Rhode Island.

Mikala is a K-12 art teacher / Visual Artist who has a Bachelor’s in in Fine Art and her Masters in Art Education from Rhode Island College. Mikala has lived a plant based vegan lifestyle for over 13 years and it may surprise you to learn that Mikala is a licensed skydiver!

Savannah Bethea
MISS SOUTH CAROLINA EARTH USA

Savannah is a visual artist and works as a model and a nanny after graduating from Converse College majoring in Study Arts. She earned her undergrad from Converse College majoring in Studio Art. With her love of environmental advocacies, her ambition is to have a career in marketing and event management for several eco focused nonprofits across the US.

Savannah is a two-time North Carolina All Around State gymnastics champion, Girl Scout Gold Award Recipient, and an Art Fields Festival competitor. She decreases her carbon footprint by practicing responsible storage and disposal of art materials, buying secondhand clothes and decor and composting.

Charnae Ware
MISS ALABAMA EARTH USA

Charnae’s future is bright with hopes of becoming a criminal defense attorney and running for public office become an agent of positive political change. She says her best attribute is self-awareness, and that failure is what truly inspires her. Charnae has a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications from Savannah State University and is set to graduate this May with her Master of Public Administration Government.

Her immediate future goal is to attend law school to become a criminal defense attorney. Charnae has been awarded Best Actress in 2017 Atlanta Film Festival and most proudly given the 2020 Governor's Circle Award for her accomplishments as Director of Keep Columbus Beautiful.

Danielle Purtell
MISS LOUISIANA EARTH USA

Danielle has a Bachelors in Evolutionary Anthropology and is a fourth-year medical student set to graduate in May and begin her three-year residency as a family medicine doctor. After residency, she hopes to pursue a fellowship in geriatrics to fulfill her goal of providing compassionate primary care to elderly and rural populations.

Danielle loves decreasing her carbon footprint by raising chickens in her backyard, composting food scraps and growing her own vegetable and fruit garden. With two dogs of her own she created #PawsToPickUp, which inspires and motivates dog owners around the world to pick up litter while walking their dogs.

Taylor James
MISS MICHIGAN EARTH USA

Taylor is an avid environmental policy activist with the Detroit chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby who enjoys participating in cleanups, weeding, invasive species removal, and beautification across Michigan.

Taylor is a six-time Gold-Level President’s Volunteer Service Award recipient who started a non-profit that collected and donated over 10,000 food and toiletry items to low-income, food insecure populations. Taylor is a senior pre-med and pre-law student at Wayne State University in Detroit, where she is pursuing concurrent degrees in Public Health and Mathematical Economics with honors both in only two years’ time. In her spare time, Taylor works as an EMT.

Marizza Delgado
MISS NEW YORK EARTH USA

Marizza has a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology from University of California, Santa Cruz and has plans to found her own tech company and be a speaker in all women STEM panel. She works as a Google certified Data Analyst, Data Scientist on Etsy’s Product Analytics team and as a fashion model represented by two management companies. Marizza is a NYFW Model and has been featured in Seventeen Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and L'oreal campaigns.

Though she’s a devoted fashionista, her one rule fashion rule she’d like to permanently break would be always allow the wearing socks with sandals because athleisure is her uniform. She says her best attribute is that she lives by the embracing the motto “be comfortable being uncomfortable” and she takes pride in her ability to embrace the unknown. Marizza calls herself an adrenaline junkie who loves skydiving and cliff diving for thrills!

Emma Loney
MISS OKLAHOMA EARTH USA

Emma is a national partner for the National Eating Disorder Association and founder of "Thrift It”, a social platform to inform others on the importance of thrift shopping and donating used items. As a Law Student and a Plus Model Emma has been inspired inspired by all women challenging stereotypes. Her biggest accomplishment was receiving an academic scholarship to attend law school and to be featured on the cover of India’s first ever pageantry magazine, P&I Magazine.

Emma is a twin, who looks to thrifting as a major means of decreasing her carbon footprint as well as raising her eleven chickens.

Madeline Delp
MISS SOUTH DAKOTA EARTH USA

Madeline is a TEDx Speaker who gave a powerful speech on how we can create a truly accessible world for all. She has a Bachelors Degree in Business and Foreign Language and is fluent in Spanish and German and is on her way learning Mandarin Chinese. Madeline works as a Marketing Director and the CEO of her Nonprofit Live Boundless where she has traveled through Asia and South America delivering wheelchairs to those in remote areas. She is an advocate for sustainable agriculture and creating food systems that will feed our world for generations to come. You may recognize her from the lead actress in country music star Gabby Barrett’s “Good Ones” music video.

Mai Vu
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