Averie Bishop

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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, and beauty pageant titleholder. She was the 2022 Miss Texas and second-runner up at Miss America 2023.

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Life

Bishop was born in McKinney, Texas. [1] Her mother, a Filipina immigrant from Banga, South Cotabato, Mindanao, [2] worked as a maid and her father was a white and Cherokee [3] bus driver. [4] She attended schools in the Prosper Independent School District. [1] 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. [1] [2] By 2022, the foundation was sponsoring over 45 children. [2]

Bishop studied musical theatre. [1] She completed her bachelor's degree and J.D. at Southern Methodist University. [1] While in law school, Bishop interned at a law firm in New York and for U.S. representative Sheila Jackson Lee. [4] In 2020, she began using TikTok during her first semester of law school. [2] Following graduation, she founded a creating consulting business in January 2022. [2] Bishop began competing in beauty pageants to earn scholarship money for school. [4] In 2019, she won first competition, Miss Lufkin. [2] She subsequently won Miss Dallas in 2020 and Miss Carrollton in 2021. [2] In her third attempt, Bishop won the 2022 Miss Texas competition. [1] She is the first Asian to win Miss Texas. [4] At Miss America 2023, she was the second-runner up after Grace Stanke of Wisconsin and Taryn Delanie Smith of New York. [5] She won US$20,000. [5]

Traditionally an apolitical position, during her year term as Miss Texas, Bishop's platform "Y’all Means All" [2] advocated for diversity and inclusion and the need for comprehensive sex education in schools. [4] She has also pushed for affordable health and reproductive care. [4] She opposed the overturning of Roe v. Wade. [4] Bishop lobbied Texas Republicans to consider the benefits of college diversity and inclusion programs before the Texas Legislature ultimately passed a ban. [4] She supports student loan forgiveness. [4] Bishop is a member of the Dallas Anti-Hate Advisory Council. [2] In 2022, Bishop starred in Miss Saigon alongside Lou Diamond Phillips at Casa Mañana. [4]

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