Senior Mykenzi Doran is an influencer and model. For six years, Doran has been modeling. It has had a major impact on her life.

Doran not only models, but she is also in band. Her main instrument is trumpet, but she also plays the clarinet and bass clarinet. Although she is in many clubs, she still finds ample time to model and compete. 

“My mom got a letter in the mail whenever I was 12 years old that was from a pageant called National American. And they had invited me to come compete in their state pageant. And we had gone to open calls and stuff just to see what it would be like, and then we went through with competing the first year…  getting to experience the full pageant weekend and all that fun. That’s it. My mom just tried to put me out there, so she got in contact with Supermodels Unlimited. And things kind of just went from there,” Doran said. 

Doran is able to be found on the Instagram page of Supermodels Unlimited. She plans to continue modeling, but it isn’t her top choice for her career.

“What I want to do with my life is very contradicting to what I do now because I actually want to be a mortician and own a funeral home and sort of run that part of the mortuary. I feel like whenever I talk about that people don’t take me seriously about it. Because you know, I’m a pageant girl,  I do modeling and I do makeup and I do hair and I play instruments and I have all these talents that people just like, don’t think that I wouldn’t use in the rest of my life,” Doran said.

Doran plans to attend college to become a mortician when she graduates in June. 

“What shaped me as a person would have to be all of the experiences that I’ve gathered throughout my years in junior high and high school because each year I built up on something. Like in junior high I started playing the clarinet. And then I learned how to play the trumpet and the bass clarinet and through my teachers Mr. Martin and Mr. Detwiler I was able to really strengthen my love and my knowledge about those instruments. And I was also going through yearbook and newspaper and learning all of those new things and gathering all of that knowledge. And in the background is where I started like joining new clubs, making new friends, doing pageantry, modeling, reaching out to people and just really trying to like, do whatever I could to make my high school years and I feel like now as a senior that it was all worth the stress and trouble that I put myself through,” Doran said.

Everyone needs a good role model in their life, to help mold them as a person. Doran knows this, and tries to become this person for those who don’t already have a proper role model.

“Growing up? I’ve always tried to be the person that somebody can rely on. And I really want to continue with that and strengthen that and become the person that people look to you. I have always like, taken a leadership role. Even though like in a lot of the activities that I’m in I don’t have a very concrete leadership role. I’ve always tried to like, help the people who don’t understand what they’re doing and like, strengthen their knowledge more because there’s no way that anybody’s going to be able to get through this craziness that we call life without like, helping each other instead of trying to hurt each other and bring each other down.”

Though Doran does many things with her life, she still seems to find ways in which she can make the most out of it, for her, and for those that she is a role model for.