Deneen Zezell Graham Kerns is a dance teacher and pageant contestant from North Carolina.
Her parents, Jean and Bobby Graham, were both educators in Wilkes County public schools.
[1] Vanessa Williams, winner of the Miss America 1984 title, has said that the Ku Klux Klan threatened to burn a cross on Graham's lawn after she won the North Carolina pageant.
As a performer with the Miss Georgia pageant from 1988 to 1994, she served as co-choreographer and chief choreographer.
Many of her students at Carol Walker Dance Academy have received the highest awards in regional and national competition.