Graduated from Walled Lake Western High School (2006).
Pursuing a BFA in Musical Theatre at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, Ohio (2008).
Miss America 2008. Her platform was eating disorder awareness, as she suffered from anorexia when she was sixteen.
Miss Michigan 2007.
Was named spokesperson of IHOP's third annual National Pancake Day in February, 2008.
Threw the first pitch at the opening game of the Detroit Tigers, hosted the Great Thanksgiving Banquet at the New York City Rescue Mission and appeared in the Washington, D.C. Cherry Blosssom Festival parade.
Her grandmother, Iora Hunt, represented Detroit, Michigan at Miss America 1944.
The movie that scared her the most, when she was a child, was Jaws (1975). Still afraid to go into the water.