Spotlight: Karie Grace Shields, Miss Lake Tillery 2024 | Miss North Carolina Organization

Talent Category: Vocal

Previous MAO Titles: Queen City ’22

Hometown: Albemarle, NC

Current Schooling: Duke University Nursing Student (ABSN Program)

What are your scholastic and/or career ambitions? Obtain a Bachelor of Nursing degree that will allow me to serve as a labor and delivery nurse where I can influence the health and well-being at the beginning of the child’s life and be a catalyst for the child’s future health.

Community Service Initiative (CSI): Awaken Your Wonderfulness

What are some objectives you have as a titleholder? Awaken Your Wonderfulness (AYW) enables children to cope, hope, and love during disastrous times. Through donations of new and gently loved stuffed animals, AYW delivers immediate intervention to children of all ages. As Miss Lake Tillery, I will collect over 500 stuffed animals throughout my year, which will be made possible through networking, drives, and the release of my children’s book.

What are some interesting facts abut you? Founded Awaken Your Wonderfulness; Dual-Sport Collegiate Golfer and Lacrosse Player at Pfeiffer University; Four Time Hair Donor

What do you enjoy doing for fun? –