If This Crown Could Talk

Marian Omidigi is the reigning Miss Arizona United States 2020. She is passionate about economic justice and wants to live in a country where there is equal access to economic opportunity and the ability to amass wealth regardless of race, gender or background. She is redefining wealth for the masses as the creator of “Girl Wealth” LLC, an online platform aimed at empowering millennial and GenZ women to focus on generational wealth. Marian currently works in Private Wealth Management at Morgan Stanley and plans to pursue her MBA in the Fall of 2020 at The University of Michigan. She will be competing on the national stage in Las Vegas in her quest to become Miss United States 2020.

Geimi Chism is the reigning Mrs. All-Star United States titleholder for 2019. Her platform is called Reach Your Peak, and it is all about bringing under resourced youth into the outdoors. During her reign she has worked with various groups of young girls to empower them to follow their dreams in life and building their confidence through the sport of rock climbing. When she is not wearing a crown, Geimi works as an engineer. Her degree is in Aerospace Engineering and she currently works in software development. 

Julia Minakowski is the reigning Miss USA Ambassador. She is a natural born leader who is beautiful inside and out. Julia is a recent graduate with a degree in Biomedical Engineering. Currently, she works for Lockheed Martin Space as a Guidance, Navigation & Control Engineer. Her favorite organization to fundraise with is the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. In Julia's first national pageant she captured our hearts and the crown! Look out world, here come Julia Minakowski

Heidi Scheer, Mrs. USA 2020 has been involved in pageantry for 30 years. She has held local, state, national, and international titles and has also worked as a coach and state director.  Heidi is the national Conference Host for the Autism Hope Alliance and serves as an autism health advocate, author, mentor for several national autism organizations and board member for the SafeMinds organization. When she isn’t giving back to the community, Mrs. USA 2020 enjoys speaking, traveling, working out boot camp style, and hanging out with her family and fur babies. Heidi resides in Michigan with her husband Doug and their three amazing children, Carson, Gannon, and Ella.

Akela Douglas is a Sacramento native and graduate of California State University Sacramento with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Finance. She is currently a professional hairstylist and has created beautiful looks for numerous brides, models, hair shows, music videos, magazines, and even New York fashion week. In 2014 Akela relocated to San Francisco to expand her career. It paid off because in July 2017 she opened her own salon in the Lower Haight neighborhood of San Francisco and last October opened Akela’s Hair Studio in the Marina. She also travels throughout the country as a Brand Educator for world renowned Wella Haircolor Company.    As an adult Akela decided to revisit her love of pageantry. She was crowned Ms. California World 2019, and then went on to win the Ms US World Pageant last November. She is also the first African American woman to win this title!  During her reign she will travel the country promoting her social platform: “The Importance of Mentoring and Encouraging Women into Leadership.”  She was inspired to choose this platform from her experience with Big Brothers Big Sisters as “Big” to Catherine a 14 year old straight A student in the East Bay.

Sabrina Lopez is a young woman of faith, mentor and activist supporting those who struggle with anxiety and depression. This brilliant competitive dance phenom excels on and off stage and is truly passionate about pageantry. In this episode of "If This Crown Could Talk" Sabrina and I discuss how she began her pageant journey, lessons learned along the way and why she is so committed to her affair with the crown.