HBCU ROYALTY FEATURE
MALLORY BUTTS
receive natural hair care products from beloved Black-owned and founded businesses, including Rucker Roots, Carol’s Daughter and Camille Rose. She hopes to continue to nurture brand relationships with the college in order to advance opportunities and initiate programs for students interested in cosmetic- related fields. In 2022, Glamour named her as a 2022 College Woman of the Year. Heavily inspired by the late Virgil Abloh and his design philosophies, Butts engages in the world of fashion by designing apparel and styling to tell meaningful stories. After obtaining an Inside LVMH Certificate (2021), she became Spelman’s first Virgil Abloh “Post-Modern” Scholarship and first AUC Neiman Marcus Group Sustainability Scholarship award recipient and received both consecutively in 2023 and 2024. In October, she led the third annual information session, “The Fashion Scholarship Fund and Virgil Abloh “Post-Modern” Scholarship,” for AUC students, which she initiated in 2022. Mallory is using her platforms to infiltrate the luxury fashion industry, telling Black stories through collaborative and philosophical efforts.
President) and Atlanta University Center (AUC) Agency (Creative Director). A staunch advocate for building cultural sensitivity and annihilating health inequities, Butts plans to become a cosmetic chemical engineer, formulating skin care for people of color to decrease disparities in the industry and resulting health issues. While interning three times for 12 weeks with The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) in New York, she worked closely with cosmetic
engineers to advance practices in cosmetic formulations. Butts returns to ELC in May for a fourth year. As Miss Spelman, she serves on the platform SHINE Well, an acronym for servant leadership, health and wellness advocacy, intentional living, nurturing community, and evoking vision. As a part of the health and wellness advocacy initiative, she recently created an event for students entitled Cookies + Curls, which gave students an opportunity to
M allory Butts, a Spelman College senior, Dean’s Scholar, chemistry- chemical engineering dual major from Atlanta, GA is actively engaged at Spelman as the 41st Miss Spelman College. She is a member of Spelman’s Ethel Wadell Githi Honors Program, Eta Kappa Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Society of Women Engineers, National
Society of Black Engineers, Society of Cosmetics (Vice
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