Averie Bishop

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.

Averie Bishop
Born
McKinney, Texas, U.S.
EducationSouthern Methodist University (BA, JD)
TitleMiss Texas (2022)
WebsiteOfficial website

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]

References
  1. Rogers, Tim (2022-10-13). "Miss Texas Is an SMU Law Grad". D Magazine. Retrieved 2023-07-01.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Hennessy-Fiske, Molly (June 30, 2023). "An unlikely provocateur, Miss Texas, takes on the state's GOP leaders". Washington Post. Retrieved 2023-07-01.
  5. Tamanaha, Akemi (2022-12-19). "Miss Texas second-runner-up at Miss America competition". AsAmNews. Retrieved 2023-07-01.
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