Tamira A. Cole
Tamira Antwionette Cole (pronounced Ta-my-rah) (born February 10, 1984), is a pageant contestant, noted collegian, and author; she is best known as the winner of the 2009 Miss Black Kentucky USA pageant. A native of Jackson, Tennessee, she currently resides in Clarksville, Tennessee.
Biography
Cole is the first African American woman to be selected for membership into the Sigma Kappa Chapter of Chi Omega at Austin Peay State University. She is also a youth advocate, community activist, academic, and speaker. She is the youngest Recipient of the Jobelle Holcombe Outstanding Panhellenic Alumna Award of Chi Omega in convention history.
Cole was given an honorable mention for USA Today's 2004 All-USA Academic College Team All-American, was named a top 22 College Woman of Glamour Magazine in 2005 and has been featured in Shape Magazine. She is the first and only Austin Peay State University student to ever be named to both national lists of distinction. She has been recognized as the 2007 Glamour Magazine Hero, is a youth council member on the U.S. Public Service Academy initiative, a consultant for Girls For A Change based out of California, and is the first and only female member of the Africa Change International Board of Directors. She is a top ten national finalist in the Outstanding Youth Service Award named after Harris Wofford, a former U.S. Pennsylvania senator. She has spoken across the country and traveled internationally promoting her platform: Lights, Camera, YOUth in Action. She will compete in the national Miss Black USA scholarship pageant in August 2009.
References
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