Kelsey Ann Jackson is a 18 year old senior at Brookhaven High School.  She has developed a Female Bullying - Education and Prevention Program called “Mean Girls Aren’t Cool”. The programs focus is to increase awareness of bullying among girls and to educate about how, when and why it occurs; identifying bullying behaviors; empowering the victims; and getting school officials and parents involved to help prevent the problem.  Kelsey’s program is very effective because she can relate to what girls are experiencing, having been a victim herself.

“I am very passionate about the program because it is very personal to me. I have been a victim of bullying myself and I know how devastating it can be, but from my experience, I know things that can be done to help.  If through “Mean Girls Aren’t Cool” I can help prevent even one girl from being bullied – or one girl from being a bully – it will make a difference and that is my hope and my mission.”

In addition to presenting her “Mean Girls Aren’t Cool” program, Kelsey Ann is involved in many other activities.  She has been singing, performing, and winning state and national talent competitions since age 5. She has traveled and performed across the country including Walt Disney World, Nashville, Branson, Memphis, New York and on several cruise ships.  She has sung the National Anthem and been pre-show entertainment at the Dixie National Rodeo for the past 7 years for headliners: Dierks Bentley, Miranda Lambert, Jason Michael Carroll, Joe Nichols, Sara Evans, The Oak Ridge Boys, Rodney Adkins and Trick Pony.  She also performed The National Anthem at the Mississippi Braves special 4th of July celebration game.  This is her 6th year in FOCUS Show Choir and she has been in several Missoula Children’s Theatre productions. She was also a member of the R.A.T. Pack (Reject All Tobacco) performance troupe doing anti-tobacco education in schools for the state of Mississippi for 6 years and was in the Mississippi Showstoppers Show Choir for 3 years.  She is currently South Central Mississippi’s Outstanding Teen.  Kelsey Ann is in the National Honor Society, The Jr. Auxiliary Crown Club, is a Mentor for Big Brothers/Big Sisters, a hospital Jr. Volunteer, an American Cancer Society Relay For Life Volunteer, and a model for Susan’s Shoppe. She has served as a Mississippi Senate Page and was recently honored to have been selected to be the “Voice of Mississippi” for all students across the state as a member of the Mississippi Student Advisory Board for the state of Mississippi. The board plans student leadership conferences and works with SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) chapters empowering students to get involved in leading their peers toward good decision-making and promoting education and prevention in harmful activities like alcohol, tobacco and other drug use, violent behavior, eating disorders and reckless driving.

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You can also visit me at http://www.KelseyAnnJackson.com