Mallory Hytes Hagan (born December 23, 1988) is an American actress, model and beauty queen who won Miss America 2013 and Miss New York 2012. She was also Miss New York City 2012, Miss Manhattan 2011, Miss Brooklyn 2010, and a two-time Miss New York first runner-up. She is a native of Opelika, Alabama, where she had been runner-up in the Miss Alabama's Outstanding Teen Program, and a non-finalist talent winner at Miss Alabama. She won the Miss America competition on a platform of child sexual abuse awareness and prevention. She also gave a response on the issue of gun control in which she opposed fighting violence with violence. She moved to New York after her first year of college at Auburn University. She has announced her intent to run in the 2018 Congressional Election as a Democrat in Alabama's 3rd congressional district, which contains her hometown of Opelika.
Hagan is from Opelika, Alabama and is a 2007 graduate of Opelika High School. She was influenced by her formative years spent with a mother who ran a dance studio in the Auburn-Opelika area, where she was raised. Her grandmother had run a dance studio in Tennessee, where Hagan was born. She is a former student at Auburn University, where she spent a year studying biomedical science. She was also a member of the sorority Pi Beta Phi Alabama Gamma chapter, becoming the fourth Pi Beta Phi to become Miss America (Marilyn Van Derbur, Jackie Mayer, and Susan Akin).