Averie Bishop
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Averie Bishop | |
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 Bishop in 2024 | |
| Born | McKinney, Texas, U.S. |
| Education | Southern Methodist University (BA, JD) |
| Title | Miss Texas (2022) |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Website | Official website |
Averie Bishop is a social activist who is the first Asian American woman to be crowned Miss Texas. Her work focuses on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and she co-founded a nonprofit supporting educational access for underserved communities.
She was the second-runner up at Miss America 2023, and ran as the Democratic Party's candidate for Texas's 112th House of Representatives district in the 2024 elections.
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 supporting education and accessibility to drinking water in impoverished communities in her mother's hometown of Banga, South Cotabato.[1][2] By 2022, the foundation was sponsoring over 45 children.[2]
Bishop studied musical theater.[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]
