Alaskans are invited to be at the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport at 2:30 pm on Sunday to welcome home Miss Alaska / Miss America, according to her family and Bonnie Faulks, executive director of the Miss Alaska/Miss America organization, who is also returning on a separate flight from the Miss America pageant in Connecticut.
Emma Broyles is the first Alaskan to ever be crowned Miss America in the organization’s 100-year history. A graduate of Service High School in Anchorage, she is a student at Arizona State University and hopes to become a dermatologist.
Broyles is also the first American of Korean heritage to be crowned Miss America.
