Career
Early pageants
She competed in the June 2007 Mission Indiana"s Outstanding Teen pageant and claimed the state title with a lyrical ballet performance. She competed in the 2014 Mission Indiana pageant with the platform "Project Educate - Changing Lives Through Education" and a dance performance in the talent portion of the competition. Jackson represented Indiana at the National Sweetheart 2014 pageant but was not a finalist.
Mission Indiana 2015
In August 2014, Jackson was crowned Mission Harvest Homecoming 2014.
She entered the Mission Indiana pageant in Zionsville in June 2015 as one of 35 qualifiers for the state title. Jackson"s competition talent was a lyrical ballet performance to "lieutenant Is Well With My Soul" as sung by Guy Penrod.
Her platform is "Project Impact: If Not You, Then Who?". She earned thousands of dollars in scholarship money and other prizes from the state pageant.
As Mission Indiana, her activities include public appearances across the state of Indiana.
In the televised finale on September 13, 2015, she placed outside the Top 15 semi-finalists and was eliminated from competition. She was awarded a $3,000 scholarship prize as her state"s representative. Jackson was born in Tampa, Florida, moved with her family to Indiana when she was an infant, and has been a resident of Charlestown, Indiana, since 2005.
Her father, Gregg Jackson, is a former pastor.
Her mother, Trina Collins Jackson, was crowned Mission New Mexico 1984. She has three younger brothers.
She enrolled at Belhaven University in Jackson, Mississippi, in 2012 but left after one year. She is a student at the University of Louisville where she studies communications.
