(CNN) — Miss America has undergone a series of changes in the last year intended to transform the annual competition from a beauty pageant to a platform for empowering young women in the #MeToo era.
The former Miss New York is the 98th woman to hold the prestigious national pageant title Cassie Donegan was crowned Miss America 2026 in Orlando on Sept. 7, 2025, and since then, the beauty queen has ...