Christina Rose Cunningham

Platform - Family Advocacy

Christina Rose Cunningham is a spunky, sassy, but loving six-year-old girl from Lenoir, North Carolina.

Since 2023, Christina has held the title of Tiny Miss North Carolina-Southern Regal and the national titles of Junior Mini Miss-East Coast USA 2024-25 and 2024 Bella Miss-Universal Miss. She supports various local pageant systems that give back to the community.

Christina's platform is called The HUGS Project (Helping Underprivileged Groups Succeed). Her goal is to help families who lack seasonally appropriate clothing. The donations go to schools, shelters, and other organizations that support the needs of homeless and poverty-stricken families.

She chose this platform to give back a little of what she has been blessed with. Christina’s dads, James and Cody Cunningham, adopted her and her sisters, Americus, Kathrine, and PJ, through the foster care system. Her sisters and her have seen firsthand the children and families that are homeless, starving, and without warm clothes in the winter or clothing that is age-appropriate and seasonally proper. They were blessed to be adopted and not have to experience this misfortune.

Christina began her community service initiative in 2023. As of June 2024, through donations from pageant families and the local community, she has been able to donate over 3,000 items of clothing to local schools and homeless camps. One of her SMART goals for 2024 was to obtain 1,000 items by September. She is happy to report that she projects she will be able to quadruple this goal. The past school year, Christina helped ensure all her classmates at her elementary school had coats and gloves, allowing them to play outside with their friends on the playground and stay warm when getting on or off the bus.

“Clothes and coats should be free to the homeless, not taken and resold for profit.”

Supporting religious organizations and other groups that do not resell donated items is one of Christina’s priorities within her platform. Community service is crucial in the pageant world because it provides a way to give back. The HUGS Project started off small, but with Christina's hard work, community involvement, social media presence, and dedication, she knows her platform can achieve new goals for the 2024-2025 year.