Whitney is a member of the Alabama Reparatory Dance Theater and is choreographing this year for the Dance Alabama Show. She has had the wonderful opportunity to dance with some of the South’s leading ballet companies, and has trained with the world famous Radio City Music Hall Rockettes. Whitney’s first year and a half in college were spent at Southern Union State Community College on a voice scholarship. It was through this college that she was selected to sing at Carnegie Hall. She was encouraged by her dance professor there to audition for UA’s Dance program and was accepted. She loves to sing and dance and with her major and minor she gets to do both. She plans to perform professionally, and in later years open a fine arts school.

Whitney’s platform, "FIRST ALERT AND DOUBLE CHECK; Mandatory hearing and vision screening for all children" is one that she takes very seriously. As a child she spent agonizing years in school trying to excel and still only achieved average and below average grades. It was heart breaking. In the tenth grade an Irish Step Dance teacher noticed in the first lesson that there were problems and recommended that her mother have her hearing checked. The result was the need for two hearing aids. Somehow even though she had been taken to the doctor every time she sneezed, no one ever checked her hearing. The results have been amazing. She went from barely getting by to being a full time college student her senior year of high school. She made the dean’s list. Whitney compliments Georgia schools for having mandatory screenings before a child enters school however for many it is the last time it is ever checked. Her platform calls for mandatory screening in the 2nd, 5th, and 8th grades. Whitney has already carried her platform to the national level and hopes to one day see every child in America have these screening. Columbus is very special to Whitney because her father was  in the  United States Army and served  at Fort Benning.