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University of Cincinnati beauty queens, pageant winners
UC neuroscience grad Ashley Nkadi was named Miss Black Ohio 2017. Active while on campus, she co-founded the Irate 8 movement and served as co-president of the United Black Student Association. Nkadi was a UC Cincinnatus Presidential Scholar and in UC’s University Honors program. She founded Noir magazine to highlight minority communities. Nkadi will represent the state in the Miss Black USA scholarship pageant in August 2017 in Washington, D.C., and has the chance to earn a $5,000 academic scholarship and other prizes.
12/2016
2008 Miss America Kirsten Haglund, a CCM student at the time
National winners
- 2008 Miss America Kirsten Haglund, att. CCM '08
- 2000 Miss America Heather Renee French, DAAP '97, MDes '01
- 1999 America's Junior Miss Sarah Jane Everman, CCM '03
State winners
- 2017 Miss Black Ohio, Ashley Nkadi
- 2009 Miss Black Ohio USA Whitney Gaskins, Eng '08
- 2005 Miss Ohio USA Aisha Berry, Bus '05
- 2004 Ohio's Junior Miss Julia Jones, Eng '09
- 2002 Miss Ohio Teen USA Renee Jackson, A&S '07
- 2003 Miss Ohio Tiffany Haas, CCM '05
- 2002 Miss Wheelchair Ohio Stacy James, A&S '93
- 1998 Miss Ohio Cheya Watkins, then a part-time UC student
- 1996 Miss Ohio Robyn Hancock, CCM '98
- 1994 Miss Ohio USA, Julia Hughes, a UC alumna
- 1993 Miss Ohio Titilayo Adedokun, CCM '94, MM '96 (Miss America second runner-up)
- 1992 Miss Ohio Courtney Baber, att. A&S '90
- 1986 Miss Ohio Tiffanie Newberry, Bus '90
- 1983 Miss Ohio Pamela Rigas, Law '86
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