In a 5-page letter addressed to “Miss America Sisters”, North Dakota’s very own Cara Mund, details disturbing treatment during her time as Miss America. Both calling out the Chair of the Miss America Organization, Gretchen Carlson and CEO Regina Hopper.
Mund says after the article ”
Miss America Cara Mund opens up: ‘It’s been a tough year’
” posted last week, she was stripped of her ‘final farewall’ and told her custom “Show Me Your Shoes” parade costume would be cut. “Not only are they dictating my final appearance, but they are also reducing my final words. I haven’t felt like Miss America for the last 8 months, and now, they are even taking away my goodbye,” Mund writes.
“The rhetoric about empowering women, and openness and transparency, is great; however, the reality is quite different. I am living that difference. To stay silent is to give away my power and the power of the women who will follow me…
About two weeks ago, I started researching workplace bullying. In the State of New Jersey, it is defined as “deliberate insults, threats, demeaning comments, constant criticism, overbearing supervision, profane outbursts, blatant ostracism, being overworked or simply not communicating with colleagues. More subtle forms of bullying can include withholding or supplying incorrect work-related information, sabotaging projects, passive/aggressive behavior, blocking promotions, providing unclear or contradictory instruction or requesting unnecessary or menial work.”
Ultimately, this is my year in a nutshell. Here are some further examples of my time at orientation. Understand that these types of things happen to me every single day…”
Click here to read the letter in its entirety.
There are also examples in Mund’s letter that are reminiscent of the “Mean Girls” movie: Gretchen Carlson and Regina Hopper, like the Gretchen and Regina in the film, criticized Mund’s clothes, mispronounced her name and spread misinformation about her, Mund says. (
USA Today
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Cara Mund, Bismarck native, Miss America
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