Lauren Ridloff went to a high school for the deaf in Washington, where she blossomed being around her peers. She went to college at Cal State Northridge, in part because the presence of the National Center on Deafness. Expanding her range as a performer, she became a hip-hop dancer. After she graduated in 2000, she won the Miss Deaf America contest, sponsored by the National Association of the Deaf. She was the first black and Latinx contestant to win the award. She read Shel Silverstein's book, "The Giving Tree," in ASL to present one of her talents as a contestant.
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