Mrs. Maine Corporate named
PRESQUE ISLE — It’s already been an exciting new year for WAGM-TV anchor/reporter Shawn Cunningham-Cloukey. Cunningham has been named 2012 Mrs. Maine Corporate America and will represent the state at the National Ms./Mrs. Corporate America Pageant competing for the distinction to represent all career, professional and working women in the U.S. next March 2013.
Over the next year, Cunningham will make appearances throughout the community and entire state promoting women in the workforce, and the importance of supporting local businesses. While the competition has a national initiative of “Where Business Meets Beauty.” Cunningham will spend her year of service promoting a professional platform called, “The Business of Service: Promoting On-the-Job Leadership, Through in-the-Community Service.”
Cunningham has worked at WAGM-TV for 10 years garnering awards for her reporting and civic involvement. The Maine Federation of Business and Professional Women twice named Cunningham Maine Young Career Woman of the Year. She has won awards from the Maine Association of Broadcasters and National Federation of Press Women. Cunningham is very active in the community including memberships in the Presque Isle Kiwanis Club, Momentum Aroostook, Caribou BPW and is captain of WAGM’s Team for the Aroostook leg of the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life.
“I can’t tell you how beyond excited I am about this opportunity to represent career and professional women of Maine,” she said. “I feel as though I’ve been working toward this goal my whole career without even knowing it. It’s a natural fit, as my husband and I both believe that community service is a great way to develop one’s leadership potential.”
“ I look forward to partnering with companies, civic groups and leadership organizations that share the same vision and promote this platform throughout the county community, and by extension, the state of Maine. I especially look forward to promoting my platform on the national level and competing for the opportunity to represent professional women throughout America, hopefully as Mrs. Corporate America 2013,” she said.
