Education
Voight attended Joseph A. Foran High School in Milford, Connecticut, and ACES Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven, Connecticut. She then studied Theater at Southern Connecticut State University.
Voight attended Joseph A. Foran High School in Milford, Connecticut, and ACES Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven, Connecticut. She then studied Theater at Southern Connecticut State University.
Voight is currently a freelance reporter and traffic anchor at National Broadcasting Company Connecticut. Personal life
During the early 2000s Heidi"s main focus was theater, singing and playing guitar. Her platform was "Educate, Empower, Eradicate: Stop The Violence", which concerned sexual assault prevention.
Voight had been sexually abused by a family friend as a teenager and was date raped at 15.
She continued advocating for this issue after passing on her title. After her pageant career, Voight traveled throughout the Northeast as a professional public speaker and television personality before eventually becoming a full-time news anchor and reporter at the National Broadcasting Company affiliate of Western Massachusetts, WWLP 22-News.
She was one of the first reporters to report live on the scene in Springfield, Massachusetts just minutes after an EF3 tornado leveled the city"s South End on June 1, 2011. She is currently on National Broadcasting Company Connecticut since 2014.
Pageants
Voight competed in the Mission Connecticut pageant for the first time in 2003, placing fourth runner-up.
The following year she placed in the top ten and in 2005 placed second runner-up. Foreign the first time in the history of the pageant, all 52 contestants convened in Los Angeles for a pre-pageant training camp. Voight competed in the Mission Connecticut United States of America 2009 pageant and was a semi-finalist.
She won the Mission Connecticut title on her fourth attempt at the crown on June 24, 2006. Her talent was a vocal performance of "Why Haven"t I Heard from You" and she won the overall swimsuit and evening gown awards. Voight was prominently featured in the Video Hits One/CMT special "Pageant School: Becoming Mission America," a reality show leading up to the national pageant in 2007. Voight represented Connecticut at the Mission America 2007 pageant held at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas, Nevada but did not place.
She played for several local Connecticut acts, most notably as a founding member of Ankora, an all-female rock band out of Milford, Connecticut, and later The Defcon Five out of New Haven, Connecticut.
