Student Spotlight: Former Miss Claflin Wins Miss Orangeburg County Title

Congratulations to Shantavia Edmonds, a senior  biochemistry major and a member of the Alice Carson Tisdale Honors College, who has been named Miss Orangeburg County 2020. Edmonds is also Miss CIAA, having been crowned in March 2019 at the CIAA Basketball Tournament in Charlotte, N.C. As a student at Claflin University,  Shantavia has lived by the Claflin motto, "The World Needs Visionaries," by being an active leader on and off campus. She is a member of the honors council and serves as the secretary of Claflin's Young Democrats of America. She also served as the sophomore class chaplain (2017-2018) and Miss University Honors (2017-2018). As an active member in the community, she was a tutor for Jerusalem Baptist Church and was Miss Garden City Teen (2015-2016).