Trisston Wright Burrows Ms. Wheelchair America/ Alabama 2005

Trisston was raised in Prattville, Alabama. Shortly after her birth in 1975, Trisston was diagnosed with a condition called Cerebral Palsy, which affects her fine-motor skills and her ability to balance to walk. However, from the day she was born, the word "can't" has never been in her vocabulary. Trisston was the first student with a disability, in the history of the Autauga County School System, to be mainstreamed grades first through twelfth. At the age of 17, she graduated from Prattville High School with an Advanced Alabama High School Diploma with honors. After graduating from high school, Trisston attended Auburn University at Montgomery (AUM). It was at AUM, she was initiated into the Delta Zeta Sorority. In 2000, she graduated from AUM at the top of her class in the School of Business and with honors --Summa Cum Laude and winning the Chancellor's Scholar Award.

On October 2, 2004 Trisston was crowned Ms. Wheelchair America/Alabama 2005. This was a "dream come true" and gave her extensive opportunities to travel Alabama advocating, educating and promoting the abilities of people with disabilities. This honor reinforced her life's mission of encouraging others to live by the words of Henry David Thoreau: "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours."  This is the message she wants to convey. This is the life she chooses to live.

In 2008, Trisston married to her best friend and the love of her life, Brian Burrows. Trisston and Brian reside in Alabama.