Mallory Hagan

Mallory Hagan
Hagan in the 2013 Show Us Your Shoes parade in Atlantic City, NJ
Born	Mallory Hytes Hagan (1988-12-23) December 23, 1988 (age 28) Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Residence	Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, New York
Education	Opelika High School Auburn University Fashion Institute of Technology
Occupation	Beauty queen
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Title	Miss Brooklyn 2010 Miss Manhattan 2011 Miss New York City 2012 Miss New York 2012 Miss America 2013
Term	January 12, 2013 - September 15, 2013
Predecessor	Laura Kaeppeler
Successor	Nina Davuluri
Website	itsmalloryhagan.com

Mallory Hytes Hagan (born December 23, 1988) is an American actress, model and beauty queen who won Miss America 2013 and Miss New York 2012. She was also Miss New York City 2012, Miss Manhattan 2011, Miss Brooklyn 2010, and a two-time Miss New York first runner-up. She is a native of Alabama, where she had been runner-up in the Miss Alabama's Outstanding Teen Program, and a non-finalist talent winner at Miss Alabama. She won the Miss America competition on a platform of child sexual abuse awareness and prevention. She also gave a timely response on the issue of gun control in which she opposed fighting violence with violence. She moved to New York after her first year of college at Auburn University, which is the local college near where she was raised.

Hagan is from Opelika, Alabama and is a 2007 graduate of Opelika High School. She was influenced by her formative years spent with a mother who ran a dance studio in the Auburn-Opelika area, where she was raised. Her grandmother had run a dance studio in Tennessee, where Hagan was born. She is a former student at Auburn University, where she spent a year studying biomedical science. She was also a member of the sorority Pi Beta Phi Alabama Gamma chapter, becoming the fourth Pi Beta Phi to become Miss America (Marilyn Van Derbur, Jackie Mayer, and Susan Akin).

She moved to the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn in October 2008. At the time of her arrival, she had $1000 and a dream of beauty pageant success. Several sources stated that Hagan was a Park Slope resident when she won Miss America.The Wall Street Journal ran a correction, corroborated by The New York Times, that she was a resident of Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn at the time. Hagan had lived in six different Brooklyn neighborhoods between her arrival in 2008 and her Miss America victory in 2013, including Sunset Park and Williamsburg.