Elena does an interview with Jen Boyett for Comcast Newsmakers

Miss Virginia Hannah Kiefer and Elena at Miss America's Outstanding Teen Caitlin Brunell's Homecoming Celebration

Elena, Miss America's Outstanding Teen Caitlin Brunell and another contestant at Caitlin's Homecoming Celebration

Elena and her Mother talk to Miss Virginia Hannah Kiefer at Caitlin Brunell's Homecoming

Miss District of Columbia Outstanding Teen LaTonia Abrams and Elena at Catilin Brunell's Homecoming

The "Pajama Party" at Caitlin Brunell's Homecoming

Elena at the Hearing Expo at the State Capitol in Harrisburg

Elena poses outside the State Capitol in Harrisburg while attending the Hearing Expo