Casar Jacobson (born November 8, 1985) is a Norwegian-Canadian actress, UN disability rights campaigner and former beauty pageant titleholder,[1][2] from Calgary, Alberta.[3] She is a disability, equality and gender rights activist, and United Nations Women Youth Champion.[1][2][4][5][6] She has also been a successful pageant contestant, winning Miss Canada Globe.[7][8]
Cäsar Jacobson was born in 1985 in Norway and grew up in Austria until age four where she moved back home and lived in Alberta, Canada with her mother, author Sandra Jacobson.[citation needed] She began competing in regional pageants in 2008, winning Calgary's Miss Sun and Salsa on her second attempt. She attended Ludwig Von Maximillian university in Germany, attaining her M.Sc. where she had already begun needing assistance for communication.[9] She was profoundly hard of hearing by her teens and become completely deaf in her twenties, eventually receiving a Cochlear Implant.[10]
She is also one of the few deaf persons to graduate from Canada's St Elizabeth Home Health Care Assistant program; she has stated that she is inspired to be a doctor.[9]
Career
In 2012 she was selected as audience favourite in Miss Universe Canada.[11][3][12] In 2013 she won the title Miss British Columbia Globe 2012/2013.[13] After that, she became Miss Canada Globe 2013.[7] She traveled to Albania to compete in the Miss Globe pageant, in which she was awarded the title of "Miss Peace".[14]
Having lost her hearing in both ears, Jacobson is profoundly deaf. She is a disability activist and gender equality spokesperson for UN Global Compact Canada.[15] Working with the United Nations entity as a Youth Champion and Planet 50/50 champion on Women Empowerment, Gender Equality, and a sub-sector in disabilities, Deaf culture and entrepreneurialism.
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