Katie Ann Powell

Katie Ann Powell is an American beauty pageant titleholder, harpist, podcaster, and financial analyst. She won the Miss District of Columbia pageant in 2024 and competed at the Miss America 2025 pageant, winning the congeniality award. She serves as the executive director of the Granite Credit Union Foundation and hosts the Full Confidence Ahead podcast.

Early life and education Powell was born on a military base and grew up in Sandy, Utah. While in undergraduate school, she was a student journalist and news anchor for BYU Universe Live News.

On March 24, 2023, Powell was crowned Queen of Days of '47 during a scholarship competition at the Pioneer Memorial Museum organized by Days of 47 Inc. and the International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers. On February 15, 2025, she sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the 2025 Sweethearts and Patriots Gala, hosted by the District of Columbia Society of the Sons of the American Revolution at the French Embassy in the United States to raise money for the National Military Family Association and Le Comite de l’Entraide Defense.

On January 5, 2025, she competed in the Miss America 2025 pageant, playing Baroque Flamenco on the harp and promoting her community service initiative called "Preparing Women for Financial Success." She won the congeniality title "most inspirational".

Powell works as a financial advisor. She is fluent in Portuguese and served as a Latter-Day Saint missionary in Portugal.