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4 WHAT'S UP! DECEMBER 11-17, 2022 Miss Arkansas Continued From Page 3 Ebony Mitchell is a tap dancer who has added expertise from her time spent as a cheerleader to her talent presentation for Miss America. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Andy Shupe) relations director Toni Lindsey, who was her first director when she competed as Miss Northwest Arkansas' Outstanding Teen in 2010 and her last as Miss Dogwood in 2022. "I knew when I first met her that she would accomplish anything she set her mind to," Lindsey said. Although she previously competed in the Miss Arkansas Pageant as Miss Metro, Miss UCA, Miss Central Arkansas and Miss North Central Arkansas and in the Outstanding Teen program as Miss North Central Arkansas' Outstanding Teen, Miss Lakes of the Northwest Outstanding Teen and Miss Northwest Arkansas' Outstanding Teen, it's not as though pageants were the only thing on which Mitchell was focused. Using the scholarship money she received along the way, she also completed a Bachelor's of Business Administration degree from the University of Central Arkansas in 2019 and is a 2022 graduate of John Brown University in Siloam Springs, where she received her Master's of Health Administration. She hopes to continue her education to eventually become a hospital administrator for a nonprofit health system. She does plan the same celebration Dec. 15, win or lose. She says she loves Crumbl Cookies, which offers a selection of specialty cookies every week. And she hasn't had one in three months.