Miss Black Ohio USA 2008
Ashlee Ponder
Age: 19
School: Kentucky State University
Major: Psychology
Talent: Modern Dance
Platform: AIDS AWARNESS (Links of Love is my Organization) is my platform and I am striving to be the founder of E Triple A (EAAA - Education on Aids Awareness Association), a program dedicated to teens and young adults ages 16-21 across America, that will focus on educating them on AIDS/HIV prevention and sexual education.
Achievements: I am a 2006 graduate of Trotwood Madison High School, where I received awards for honor roll, perfect attendance and was the choreographer of the dancers for the African American history program in 2004 and 2005. I also participated in varsity choir, drama club and show choir. My hobbies are modeling, reading, acting, dancing and writing poetry. I traveled to Europe (France, Italy, Switzerland and Austria) in 2005 as an Ohio State Representative for the People to People Student Ambassador Program. Currently, I am attending Kentucky State University, where I am on the Dean’s List with a 3.5 GPA, majoring in Psychology. I am a member of Omega Baptist Church in Dayton, Ohio, Kentucky State’s NAACP Program, in which I perform community service, a volunteer for the MANNRS (Minorities in Agriculture National Resources and Related Sciences) Community Service Committee, where I along with other students clean up the campus to provide a more positive learning environment, and am a crew/production member for Kappa Alpha Psi and Alpha Phi Alpha pageants. I was a sponsor for the 2007 Bowl for Kids Sake Big Brother and Big Sister Program, a Scholarship Recipient for Montgomery County and KSU Dayton Alumni Association for the 2007-08 school year.