Siyona Karkera of Little Rock, Arkansas, United States was 19 years old when she won Miss Arkansas USA Teen 2024 at the Visual and Performing Arts Center Theater of Oklahoma City Community College in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. She competed against 10 other candidates.
On August 1, 2024, Karkera represented Arkansas at Miss Teen USA 2024 and competed against 50 other candidates at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, California, USA. She finished in the finals.
On April 13, 2025, Karkera went to Russellville, Arkansas and crowned Jewelia Reece as the next Miss Arkansas Teen USA. The latter will represent the state at Miss Teen USA 2025.
Currently, Arkansas has 10 Miss Teen USA placements including the coronation of Stevi Lauren Perry Howard in 2008. The most recent one was in 2024 when Karkera finished in the Top 10.
Born in Hamburg, Arkansas, Howard attended Hamburg High School. In May 2009, she graduated from the acting school of the New York Film Academy in Soho, New York City, New York, USA.
On August 16, 2008, Stevi won Miss Teen USA 2008 at the Grand Ballroom on the Atlantis Paradise Island in Nassau, Bahamas. Representing Arkansas, she competed against 50 other candidates.
Miss Arkansas Teen USA 2025
| beauty pageant: Miss Arkansas Teen USA national membership: Miss Teen USA |
| edition: 43rd date: April 13, 2025 venue: The Center for the Arts, Russellville, Arkansas, United States candidates: 6 |
FINALISTS
| PLACEMENT | NAME (HOMETOWN) |
| Top 6 | Brinley Blake (Northeast Arkansas) Carsyn Lawrence (River Valley) Hallee Williamson (Spirit of Arkansas) Raquel Olea (Washington County) Addison Hollensworth (Wye Mountain) |
| Top 3 | Jewelia Reece (White River) |
SPECIAL AWARDS
| AWARD | CANDIDATE |
| Miss Congeniality | |
| Miss Photogenic |
WINNERS
| PLACEMENT | 2025 | 2024 |
| 2nd runner-up | Jewelia Reece Lowell | |
| 1st runner-up | Allison Shelby Jonesboro | |
| Miss Arkansas Teen USA | Jewelia Reece White River | Siyona Karkera Pulaski County |
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