Meet Lindsay Gaines Fincher. This 22-year-old from Wedowee is on a mission as the new Miss Alabama.
, who is actually from my county, she won the Miss Alabama crown that year. And 7-year-old Lindsay decided that if Jamie could do it — being where I am from, being from such a small community — then one day that I could do it, too. So this really has been a dream 15 years in the making. And still a little bit of shock and disbelief. I can’t believe that it was my name that was called out as Miss Alabama 2022.
You were crowned on a Saturday night at the Wright Center. When you woke up the next morning, what was your first thought? There is lots of farmland. My family didn’t live on farm. We lived pretty close to town, but we just have tons of land in our backyard. So yes, I was the kid that was running around barefoot. I was always jumping on the trampoline. I had two trampolines. We had a swimming pool, and I loved to be outside, especially when the weather is nice. That’s one of my happy places, and I think that did stem from the fact that I spent so much time outside, and I had so much open space when I was younger.
I love traveling. I love seeing that bigger world. When I went off to college, I really valued that, to get to know different types of people and connect with people from all over the country, who had lots of different ideas and beliefs, and who had very different experiences than I had in my small town. And so I loved getting to travel. I loved meeting new people. So I will say that I loved growing up in my small town.
At the University of Alabama, I felt they never tried to put me as just a performing arts student, or as somebody who was just really involved in student government and campus leadership. I got to try everything at Bama, and that was encouraged and supported.It has grown to be very important to me, as a student at the University of Alabama and especially as Miss University of Alabama. I got to go to the; I got to go to some of the different football games; I got to ride in the homecoming parade.
I just fell in love the weekend . I felt so supported by the volunteers and the other candidates in the organization. And I left feeling so confident in the best version of myself. … I came in feeling intimidated, but I left feeling empowered and confident. I knew it was a community that I wanted to stay a part of, and my love for the Miss Alabama organization has only grown.
And then, of course, there is the red carpet competition, which is what I think more people traditionally think of when they think of a pageant, or when people think of Miss Alabama, they think of the girls in the dresses. Yes, I do. I think a feminist is someone that advocates for herself and for all women, and that believes in the power that women have, and the value that we bring to the spaces that we occupy, whether that is in the government, in companies or even in their own household, their own communities. That women have power and we have value, and that we add something to the spaces that we’re in. That’s what I think a feminist is. And I would absolutely say that I feel that way.
I think it’s very easy, when we get on social media, when we turn on the news, to see a lot of negative. And I understand that. I think it’s important that people share their beliefs and share their feelings. That’s something that I am vocal about, how I think and how I feel. I think that it’s also important to be real, and to show that I do have opinions and I do have beliefs, and I have values.
I try to make the arts accessible to all students in all schools. And so a large part of what I’ve done is, I’ve created lesson plans. I’ve created virtual arts classes that can be provided to teachers, free of charge, so that they can implement those classes into their curriculum without having to pay for that curriculum. A lot of times, you can find it online, but you have to pay a subscription fee.
What would you say to someone who might be thinking about entering a local pageant or starting the road to competing for Miss Alabama? My plan is that I would love to eventually attend law school. But I think that even if one day, I’m practicing law as an attorney, I’ll still do community theater. Or I will teach dance classes or go to adult tap classes at the local studio. So I would love to pursue dance, for a while at some level, but even if I decide ultimately that that’s not what I want to do, long-term as my career, it will always be a part of my life.
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