Eliza Faith Sanders is an 19-year-old from Kingsport, Tennessee, taking the stage as Miss Sullivan County. She is a rising sophomore at Middle Tennessee State University where she is seeking a Bachelor’s Degree in Dance and a minor in Communications with hopes to one day teach dance at the collegiate level. Her social impact initiative is Families are Forever - advocating for adoption and foster care. As an adoptee herself, Eliza is passionate about helping children have a family to call their own. While this is Eliza’s first year in the Miss America Organization’s Miss Division, she previously competed in the Teen program. As Miss Historic Greeneville’s Outstanding Teen, she was 2nd runner-up at Tennessee’s Outstanding Teen Competition last year.