10 things about Miss America 2022 Emma Broyles

Emma Leigh Kim Broyles represented Alaska, United States in the 94th edition of Miss America. It is a national beauty pageant open to American women between the ages of 18 and 28.

BIOGRAPHY

Broyles is a American-Korean beauty queen from Anchorage, Alaska. She competed in Miss America’s Outstanding Teen four years before winning Miss America.

Born in Anchorage to Ronald Broyles and Julie Kim Broyles, Emma has an older brother named Brendan Broyles and a younger brother named Benjamin Broyles. Brendan has Down syndrome.

On July 25, 2025, Broyles turned 24. Here are 10 more things about her:

1. From Alaska, she moved to Tempe, Arizona, USA.
2. She won Miss Anchorage’s Outstanding Teen 2017.
3. She won Miss Alaska’s Outstanding Teen 2017.
4. She was a Miss America’s Outstanding Teen 2018 candidate.
5. In 2019, she graduated from Service High School in Anchorage.
6. She is the Distinguished Young Woman of Alaska 2019.
7. She won Miss Alaska 2021.
8. In 2022, she joined Special Olympics as an ambassador.
9. She won Miss America 2022.
10. In 2024, she graduated from Arizona State University in Tempe with a bachelor’s degree in biomedical sciences.

TIMELINE

Emma is the first Miss America from Alaska. Her mother’s parents immigrated from South Korea to Alaska.

2010s

• In January 2017, she was crowned Miss Anchorage’s Outstanding Teen 2017.
• In June 2017, she was crowned Miss Alaska’s Outstanding Teen 2017.
• On July 29, 2017, she represented Alaska at Miss America’s Outstanding Teen 2018 and competed against 50 other candidates at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, USA. She was unplaced.
• In November 2018, she was named the Distinguished Young Woman of Alaska 2019 at the Distinguished Young Woman competition.

2020s

• On June 17, 2021, she was crowned Miss Alaska 2021.
• On December 16, 2021, she represented Alaska at Miss America 2022 and competed against 49 other candidates at the Mohegan Sun Casino and Resort in Uncasville, Connecticut, USA. She won the title.
• On January 25, 2022, 12th Alaska governor Mike Dunleavy invited her as an honored guest for the 2022 State of the State address in Juneau, Alaska.
• On April 7, 2022, Alaska senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan introduced a resolution congratulating her for being crowned Miss America 2022.
• On May 22, 2022, she became a Special Olympics ambassador.
• On December 15, 2022, she went back to the Mohegan Sun Casino and Resort where she crowned her successor Miss America 2023 Grace Stanke of Wisconsin, USA.