Julia Davis and Mikaylah Dugans
Julia is an award-winning content creator and animal advocate from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies from the University of Montevallo followed by a Master’s degree in Advertising and Public Relations from the University of Alabama. Following graduation, she moved to Birmingham for a job in higher education before discovering her passion for animal advocacy. After her full-time job was eliminated in December 2022, she took it as a sign to give full-time content creation a try. The unexpected change has allowed her to dedicate all of her time to raising funds for non-profits, fostering animals, and finding ways to bring people together for the good of people and animals alike. In 2023, she published her first children’s book Chickens Don’t Go Meow! || Las gallinas no hacen miau!, a bilingual book based on the true story of how an abandoned cat brought hundreds of thousands of people together on TikTok.
Mikaylah Dugans is from Springville, Alabama. Mikaylah has been dancing since she was 2 years old and competitively since the age of
4. Competing in all genres throughout her childhood, her favorites were Clogging and HipHop. She is now a teacher at NS Dance Studio of Vestavia Hills and Beverly’s Dance of Gardendale specializing in HipHop.
Mikaylah also competed in the Miss Alabama’s Outstanding Teen program all throughout middle school and high school. She received the talent award several times as a clogger and represented Jefferson County (in 2015), Shelby County (in 2014), and North Alabama (in 2013) in the state pageant. She also competed in Miss Alabama as Miss Childersburg (in 2016) where she received the non-finalist talent award. Mikaylah now coaches young ladies who want to participate in scholarship programs.
When she is not teaching dance or coaching her pageant girls, Mikaylah is a Registered Behavioral Technician where she gets to work with kids from all walks of life and help them navigate the world more smoothly.
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