Miss Pleasant Grove 2019-2020

Miss Pleasant Grove Brooklin Allen has had the amazing and remarkable experience serving our city for two years. The extraordinary events of 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic led to the invitation and opportunity for Allen to serve for an additional year. She was honored, grateful and excited to continue serving our city with her whole heart and shared a message she is passionate about: The Ripple Effect - Spreading Kindness, Positivity and Hope both online and offline.

The Ripple Effect is a nonprofit organization that educates, inspires and promotes the need for and benefit of kindness in our lives while providing inspiration and opportunities to act with intentional kindness. The ripple of kindness spreads through individuals, businesses, school kindness clubs, community workshops for women and girls, kindness service events and city kindness months. You can follow along on Instagram at @the.ripple_effect.

During the past year, Allen has put kindness into action in our community planning and implementing many kindness events. On Veterans Day, she placed 150 beautiful mums mingled with American flags at the veterans memorial in our community for residents to come by and pick up since there would not be a memorial event due to COVID-19. Each mum was picked up, and Allen received many wonderful messages from veterans who felt seen and loved that day.

At Christmastime, she reached out again asking our community for help with donations for refugee teens in Salt Lake City. She gathered books, games, hats and handwritten cards and made 350 Christmas boxes to donate to refugee teens.

In an effort to share this message of kindness and raise money to donate to Childrens Miracle Network hospitals, Miss America Organization scholarships and her kindness service projects and events, Allen designed a line of kindness sweatshirts and T-shirts. During the past two years, Allen raised more than $12,500 to donate to CMN and MAO scholarships as well as $2,000 for The Ripple Effect Kindness service projects. You can order a kindness sweatshirt and donate to these great causes on her website at thepositiverippleeffect.com.

During the month of February, Allen presented a proclamation to the mayor and city council to designate February 2021 as Choose Kindness Month for the second year in a row. The month started off with a shoe drive in all Pleasant Grove schools and a kick-off drive-through event where community members dropped off shoes for SOLES4SOULS and picked up a calendar and bag full of supplies to put kindness into action. More than 6,500 pairs of shoes were donated to this great cause.

Also during February, daily invitations were posted on Instagram at @the.ripple_effect and at @choosekindnesspg with inspiring and intentional ways to put kindness into action. Allen worked closely with the kindness clubs within each of our schools where more than 150 signs of gratitude were made and placed to say thank you to our healthcare workers at American Fork Hospital and six care centers in Pleasant Grove.

Allen partnered with Salon Prichett where a workshop was held for 90 women who came and were inspired to be kind to themselves. The month ended with a Kindness is Golden workshop hosted by Allen for girls ages 8 to 17 where they came together and learned how to be kind to themselves and to others and put service into action.

Allen is currently a sophomore at Brigham Young University studying psychology with the goal to be an eating disorder therapist. She also teaches dance at The Dance Conservatory where she has been teaching for five years. One of her greatest loves is teaching PALS, a dance class for adults with special needs. Serving as Miss Pleasant Grove these past 2 years has been the most rewarding, incredible and life changing experience. She is “forever changed” from the amazing experiences she has had sharing something that she is so passionate about, and serving a city she loves.