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Averie Bishop
Born
McKinney, Texas, U.S.
Education Southern Methodist University ( BA, JD)
Title Miss Texas (2022)
Website Official website

Averie Bishop is an American businessperson, social media personality, politician, and beauty pageant titleholder. She was the 2022 Miss Texas and second-runner up at Miss America 2023. She is currently a Democratic candidate for Texas's 112th House of Representatives district. [1]

Life

Bishop was born in McKinney, Texas. [2] Her mother, a Filipina immigrant from Banga, South Cotabato, Mindanao, [3] worked as a maid and her father was a white and Cherokee [4] bus driver. [5] She attended schools in the Prosper Independent School District. [2] Since 2015, Bishop and her mother have run the Tulong Foundation, a nonprofit aimed at improving education and accessibility to drinking water in impoverished communities in her mother's hometown of Banga. [2] [3] By 2022, the foundation was sponsoring over 45 children. [3]

Bishop studied musical theatre. [2] She completed her bachelor's degree and J.D. at Southern Methodist University. [2] While in law school, Bishop interned at a law firm in New York and for U.S. representative Sheila Jackson Lee. [5] In 2020, she began using TikTok during her first semester of law school. [3] Following graduation, she founded a creating consulting business in January 2022. [3] Bishop began competing in beauty pageants to earn scholarship money for school. [5] In 2019, she won first competition, Miss Lufkin. [3] She subsequently won Miss Dallas in 2020 and Miss Carrollton in 2021. [3] In her third attempt, Bishop won the 2022 Miss Texas competition. [2] She is the first Asian to win Miss Texas. [5] At Miss America 2023, she was the second-runner up after Grace Stanke of Wisconsin and Taryn Delanie Smith of New York. [6] She won US$20,000 (equivalent to $20,823 in 2023). [6]

Traditionally an apolitical position, during her year term as Miss Texas, Bishop's platform "Y’all Means All" [3] advocated for diversity and inclusion and the need for comprehensive sex education in schools. [5] She has also pushed for affordable health and reproductive care. [5] She opposed the overturning of Roe v. Wade. [5] Bishop lobbied Texas Republicans to consider the benefits of college diversity and inclusion programs before the Texas Legislature ultimately passed a ban. [5] She supports student loan forgiveness. [5] Bishop is a member of the Dallas Anti-Hate Advisory Council. [3] In 2022, Bishop starred in Miss Saigon alongside Lou Diamond Phillips at Casa Mañana. [5]

References

  1. ^ Svitek, Patrick (22 August 2023). "Averie Bishop, outspoken as Miss Texas 2022, announces run for state Legislature". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Rogers, Tim (2022-10-13). "Miss Texas Is an SMU Law Grad". D Magazine. Retrieved 2023-07-01.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i Morrison, Arianna (2022-11-27). "Miss Texas breaks barriers, becoming the first Asian-American woman to represent the Lone Star State in the Miss America competition". Star Local Media. Retrieved 2023-07-01.
  4. ^ Bishop, Averie (2023-07-08). "Opinion | The simple reason I became the first Asian American Miss Texas in state history". MSNBC.com. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Hennessy-Fiske, Molly (June 30, 2023). "An unlikely provocateur, Miss Texas, takes on the state's GOP leaders". Washington Post. Retrieved 2023-07-01.
  6. ^ a b Tamanaha, Akemi (2022-12-19). "Miss Texas second-runner-up at Miss America competition". AsAmNews. Retrieved 2023-07-01.

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