Brittany Lewis
Actor
Brittany Lewis (born July 21, 1990) is an activist, educator, Miss Delaware 2014, and Miss Black America 2017.She is a native of Brigantine, New Jersey. She was crowned the 49th Miss Black America in 2017. She also competed in the Miss America Pageant as Miss Delaware in 2014. She is an advocate for domestic violence awareness and chooses it as her platform topic in pageants; her sister was fatally shot in 2010 after an abusive relationship of five years. Lewis is a historian and educator, having taught at both the college and post-secondary levels. She has a B.A., M.A., and is a Ph.D. candidate in the history department at George Washington University.Her activism and pageantry have been covered by NPR, The Washington Post, Southern Living, and Good Morning Washington, among others.
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