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Averie Bishop

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.

Early life and education
Bishop was born in McKinney, Texas. Her mother, a Filipina immigrant from Banga, South Cotabato, Mindanao, worked as a maid and her father was a white and Cherokee bus driver. She attended schools in the Prosper Independent School District. 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. By 2022, the foundation was sponsoring over 45 children. Bishop studied musical theater. She completed her bachelor's degree and J.D. at Southern Methodist University. While in law school, Bishop interned at a law firm in New York and for U.S. representative Sheila Jackson Lee. In 2020, she began using TikTok during her first semester of law school. == Career ==
Career
She began competing in beauty pageants to earn scholarship money for school. She won . She won the Democratic primary unopposed on March 5, 2024, and faced incumbent Republican representative Angie Chen Button in the general election. Bishop received 47% of the vote, losing against Button's 53%. ==References==
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