Miss Vermont 2025 is Sophia Parker, the 80th Miss Vermont! Sophia is a 26-year-old native of Addison, Vermont and a 2024 graduate of Castleton University. She holds a BSN in Nursing and works as a Registered Nurse in the Emergency Department at
the University of Vermont Medical Center. She is also a Sergeant in the Vermont Army
National Guard where she serves as a medic and is the recipient of a $7,500 scholarship and a $5,000 Ellis Strategies Public Speaking and Presentation Course.
Her Community Service Initiative is “Wildlife Rehabilitation and Stewardship of the National World”. Sophia and her mother Julianna operate Otter Creek Wildlife Rescue – a 501C3 organization dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of injured Vermont birds and mammals. “I am honored and overjoyed to be given this year of service and the opportunity to represent my beloved state as Miss Vermont 2025,” said Parker. “I am excited to travel across the state meeting with my fellow Vermonters hearing their stories and sharing my passion for wildlife rehabilitation. Service is such a blessing both to those who receive it and those who give it. One of my goals is to inspire Vermonters of all ages to find their passion through service and causes near and dear to their own hearts. The phenomenal board of the Miss Vermont Scholarship Organization and my Miss Vermont sisters have empowered me and helped me grow since I was 15 years old and held the honor as serving as Miss Vermont’s Teen 2015. I am forever grateful to have this challenge of being their representative for the next year.”
Sophia says she plans to work with legislators and other nonprofits to create more humane laws for wildlife in Vermont as well as encouraging the state’s Department of Fish & Wildlife to license more wildlife rehabilitators. She is the youngest licensed rehabilitator in the state.
You can follow her journey as Miss Vermont on social media @MissAmericaVT.
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