She has raised more than US$4,000 (S$5,047) for children's cancer research, and last weekend she delivered on a promise to people who pledged by allowing her hair to be buzzed off.
She is proud of raising money, but the underlying message is for children who lose their hair because of cancer treatments.
"You're proving it's OK to be bald regardless of whether you chose to be or not," Ms Ebben said.
Ms Ebben, 23, was motivated to get involved with the St Baldrick's Foundation by another beauty queen, Miss Virginia 2008 Tara Wheeler. Near the end of her reign, Wheeler decided to raise US$50,000 for St Baldrick's and pledged to become a "shave" if she reached her goal.
"It's my job as a title holder to make a really bold statement, and to be someone that people can look up to, and make an impact on the community. And that was really why I fell in love with it," Ms Ebben said. "It was something that was different. It was something that was unique. It was something that I could do and accomplish in a community and was something that everyone could get involved with."
Everyone included her mother Julie, who also pledged to shave her head.
Ms Debbe Ebben's turn began with auctioning off ponytails of her hair. A barber finished the job.
Ms Ebben has not decided whether to grow her hair out as the Miss Alaska Pageant approaches in June, with the chance to compete in the Miss America Pageant. She doesn't think stubble will hurt her chances.
"I don't see it as anything negative," she said. "Girls wear extensions. Girls wear weaves. Girls wear wigs. There's no difference. The true beauty is what you emanate yourself. That's really what the Miss America organisation is about. It's not what you look like, it's how you represent and carry yourself."
Ms Alisa Parrent, director of the Miss Chugiak-Eagle River program that Ms Ebben won, calls Ms Ebben courageous.
"There's a lot of young girls who are just recently being diagnosed with cancer, that are going to be faced with losing their hair, and maybe they've always dreamed of being Miss America, and the idea of losing their hair is just devastating to them," Ms Parrent said.
"So to see Debbe, who is a beauty queen, and who says it's okay to beautiful and to be bald, that's just really touching."
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