Tara Teng

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Tara Teng
Beauty pageant titleholder
File:Miss BC Tara Teng.jpg
Teng wearing her Miss BC World sash
Born (1988-08-16) August 16, 1988 (age 35)[1]
British Columbia, Canada
Residence Fort Langley
Education Bachelor of Education
Alma mater Trinity Western University
Occupation Former pageant winner
Years active 2010–2012
Height 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)[2]
Hair colour Brown
Eye colour Brown
Title(s) Miss BC World
Miss Canada
Miss World Canada
Major
competition(s)		 Miss World 2012
Official website

Tara Teng (born August 16, 1988)[1] is a Canadian former pageant winner. She was named Miss Canada in 2011 and Miss World Canada in 2012. During her title reigns she was an advocate for human rights and spoke about human trafficking.

Early life and education

Tara Teng's father is a church pastor and she was raised as a Christian.[3] She was homeschooled until the age of 15.[4] She received a Bachelor of Education from Trinity Western University.[5][6][7]

Teng spent four months studying at TWU's Laurentian Leadership Centre (LLC) in Ottawa, participating in the Laurentian Leadership Program.[8][9] While in Ottawa, she had a year-long internship with Joy Smith, Member of Parliament (MP) for Kildonan—St. Paul in Winnipeg, who had been working to implement laws to reduce the demand for prostitution in Canada and on improving awareness about human trafficking.[10]

Pageants

In 2010 Teng won the Miss BC World contest[11][12] and the pageant's People's Choice Award.[13] In 2011, she was crowned Miss Canada in Montreal.[14] She won the Miss World Canada pageant in 2012, and represented Canada at the 2012 Miss World pageant.[4]

Activism

In Canada

In October 2010, Teng used her position as Miss BC World to meet with Canada's Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, to discuss human trafficking.[7] In November 2011, Joy Smith and Bruce Stanton, Assistant Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, hosted a reception in Teng's honour, at which she gave a speech to Senators and MPs about human trafficking.[8]

Teng participated in "Buying Sex is Not a Sport", a campaign during the 2010 Winter Olympics.[13] After participating in Toronto's second annual Freedom Walk in March 2011, she organized the Freedom Week campaign in the Lower Mainland, British Columbia with Todd Hauptman.[15][6][14] That August, she participated in the Ignite the Road to Justice Mission Tour, beginning in Vancouver.[16][17] The tour continued across the country eastwards.[7]

Teng participated in an anti-human trafficking task force in her hometown of Langley, British Columbia, producing a report on measures the community could do to tackle it.[18] In April 2012, Teng and Hauptman presented Langley Township with an "action plan" and asked the township to accept the plan's first two stages, dealing with prevention and education.[19][20]

Teng partnered with World Vision International[21] to give speeches at events raising funds for International Justice Mission, which rescues children from brothels.[22][23]

In Asia

In June 2011,[24] Teng visited towns and slums in Cambodia and Thailand where families had sold their daughters to sexual slavery.[17][25][7] These included Patpong, Thailand where she partnered with Rahab Ministries Thailand to spend time with female human trafficking survivors.[26] In Chiang Mai, Thailand, Teng spoke to an audience of 40,000 people at the MTV Freedom Concert in support of MTV EXIT, a campaign to end human trafficking and exploitation.[10][27] The Cambodia trip was supported by the advocacy group Traffic Jam[10] and World Orphans.[27]

In February 2012, Teng was a keynote speaker at the Freedom and Honor Conference in Seoul.[25] Later in the year, she travelled to Sri Lanka with MuchMusic VJ Sarah Taylor, pop singer Tyler Medeiros, and illustrator Gary Taxali. There, she visited World Vision's development programs in Thanamalvila Divisional Secretariat and Bogawantalawa to help fundraising efforts.[28]

Honours

In 2011, Chatelaine named her one of Canada's "Hot 20 Under 30" women.[29] In 2012 she was one of 30 Langley residents to receive the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.[21] That same year the Joy Smith Foundation recognised her work in human rights by giving her its International Freedom Award,[22] and she was added to the Catalyst Conference's Young Influencers List.[30]

References

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Preceded by
Sandra Gin
 Miss BC World
2010		 Succeeded by
Cheryl Dietrich
Preceded by Miss Canada
2011		 Succeeded by
Jaclyn Miles
Preceded by Miss World Canada
2012		 Succeeded by
Camille Munro
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