Miss Rodeo Kansas 2025, Charity Rose Pulliam calls Arkansas City, Kansas home. She graduated from Oklahoma State University in 2022, receiving her Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources with a major in agricultural communications and a minor in animal sciences. While in school Charity was an active member of the OSU Paddle People and the Collegiate Reined Cow Horse Judging Team. After graduating from OSU, Charity moved to the Sunflower State to pursue a career teaching ag. She said God had other plans, as she now works as a rodeo and western lifestyle journalist. She is also working towards obtaining a PRCA Music Director card in her spare time.

Mary Powell is a champion cowboy poet from Longton, Kansas. She holds a degree in Livestock Production Management from Kansas State University and has been working in animal agriculture her entire life. Her experience includes cow-calf operations and working in the beef cattle industry before raising meat goats. She does consulting as well as operating her business called Barnyard Weed Warriors which uses goats to naturally clean pastures. Her articles have been published in Goat Rancher and Grass & Grain. She enjoys raising Quarter Horses and Border Collies. In 2023, she won the coveted Governor’s Buckle as champion of the Kansas Cowboy Poetry Contest.

Ron Wilson is a cowboy poet from the Lazy T Ranch near Manhattan, Kansas, where his family resides today. Proclaimed a “Poet Lariat” (not laureate) by Governor of Kansas Bill Graves, Ron chairs the annual Kansas Cowboy Poetry Contest, hosts the monthly online video show called “Cattle Trails Showcase,” and produces a biweekly newspaper column called “Cowboy Up.” He is the only cowboy poet in history to present a cowboy poem at a Kansas Governor’s inauguration. He is a spokesman for the National Day of the Cowboy organization, an Ambassador for the National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, a 2022 inductee into the Kansas Cowboy Hall of Fame, and national president of Western Wordsmiths.

Ron McDaniel and his wife Nancy live in NW Arkansas, where they have three kids and four grandkids. They were also foster parents having fostered teenagers for 5 years. They have horses, dogs and just enough cattle to be in constant debt to the bank. Ron works in the Equine division for Merck Health Company and day works for area ranches. As a testament to his cowboying skills, the cow boss at Adams Cattle Company said, "Hiring Ron was like losing two good men." Ron and Nancy actively support many charitable organizations, including REMOUNT, CALL, & Ride Prosperously. Ron has quite a talent of reciting cowboy poetry and entertaining many with his quick wit. Ron has won the National Cowboy Poetry Rodeo, winning the Humorous Rising Star division and Reciter Serious Silver Buckle division. He enjoys anything that keeps him horseback, being with his family and writing about himself in 3rd person!

Founding Pastor at Risen Ranch Cowboy Church, Carthage, MO, he's been serving for over 30 years, including Cowboys for Christ, and Rodeo Cowboy Ministries, traveling the Midwest and helping to start cowboy churches in Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Illinois, Hawaii and Oklahoma. Pastor Steve has many friends who he calls family, that are a big part of EquiFest of Kansas!