This year’s Miss America has gone rogue. In an open letter, Cara Mund claims she has been silenced and put “on a shelf” by the organization since 1989’s crown-wearer Gretchen Carlson stepped back into the Miss America limelight. “I truly felt more valued, respected and viewed as a real collaborator within my first three months rather that these last eight months,” Mund wrote in an open letter distributed to prior Miss America winners.