Oklahoma Cinderella

The International Cinderella Scholarship Program, founded in 1976, has grown into the largest and most prestigious scholarship oriented pageant system of its kind in the world. Throughout its 40+ year history Cinderella has championed the need and value of higher education for women and has promoted that goal by awarding millions of dollars in cash... college scholarships to young women from the United States and a host of foreign countries. Cinderella is based on a 3 tiered system of competitions. Participants start out on the Local level and based on their performance can advance to the State level of competition (or national level for foreign countries) and then proceed to the final level of competition, the International Pageant. Kelli Harvey has been actively involved in pageantry as a contestant, parent, judge, instructor and director for over 45 years. She has been involved with the Cinderella Scholarship Program since 1989, when her daughter Lindsey became the 1989 Texas State Cinderella Tot. Kelli became a preliminary director in 1990 and later was named the Texas State Coordinator in 1991. After a hiatus from Cinderella, Kelli once again became involved as the Houston Area Preliminary Director in 1999 after Lindsey won the Texas Cinderella Teen Title. Through the years, Kelli co-owned and directed another pageant system, was a highly sought after judge and modeling coach, co-founded the South Texas Pageant Expo and was on the board of directors of the Miss Southeast Texas Scholarship Pageant, a preliminary to the Miss America Organization. In June of 2000, Kelli was given the opportunity to purchase the Texas State franchise for the Cinderella Scholarship Program and become its "first" State Director after 24 years of being owned and directed by Cinderella's International Headquarters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In one short year, she introduced Cinderella to over 300 Texas families and has since watched it become one of the largest and most competitive states in the entire program. Kelli believes that ...Read More