Miss USA To Address Birmingham Children Of Incarcerated Parents

BIRMINGHAM, AL — Miss USA 2020 Asya Branch will be in Birmingham Thursday to address close to 100 Prison Fellowship Angel Tree children who currently have an incarcerated parent in the Birmingham area.

Prison Fellowship, the nation’s largest Christian nonprofit serving prisoners, former prisoners and their families, is hosting Branch at the Angel Tree event Thursday afternoon at The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham.

This cause has special meaning to Branch, as her father was incarcerated when she was young, and ever since, she has been promoting her passion for criminal justice reform and working to see legislation pass at the city, state and federal levels.

Branch says having a strong mentality has allowed her to be a life coach and trendsetter "without second guessing herself."

Branch was the first African-American woman to be crowned Miss Mississippi USA in 2020, and was Mississippi's entrant into the Miss America Pageant in 2018.