Janaye Ingram

Janaye Michelle Ingram (born 1979) is a beauty queen and political organiser from Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
Ingram was crowned Miss New Jersey USA 2004 in Jersey City, New Jersey in late 2003. . She later represented New Jersey in the Miss USA 2004 pageant held in Los Angeles, California in April 2004 where she went unplaced.
Ingram appeared in the movie Road Trip with Tom Green. She is originally from Camden, New Jersey, but later moved to Cherry Hill. Ingram's family is well known in Camden. Her father and his siblings are musicians who worked closely with The Sound of Philadelphia. Her paternal aunt is Barbara Ingram.
She graduated from Clark Atlanta University with a B.A. in Psychology where she was initiated into the Alpha Pi Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. Ingram later went on to pursue a Master's of Science in Nonprofit Management at Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy.
In 2013 Ingram was promoted from her position as Washington DC bureau chief to be national executive director of National Action Network, founded and led by Rev. Al Sharpton. Ingram has worked with organizations across the country to empower underserved populations and has received numerous awards and recognition for her efforts. She is a board member for the Women in Entertainment Empowerment Network (WEEN) and has started a scholarship campaign for children and youth in impoverished communities called Ambassadors of Hope. In 2017 she was Head of Logistics for the Women's March.