Ghanaian-born Annette Addo-Yobo has been topped Miss Texas 2024. The North Texas resident was topped queen of the wonder pageant on Saturday night time on the Charles W. Eisemann Heart for Performing Arts in Richardson, USA.
Annette Addo-Yobo has made historical past as the primary immigrant-born and the primary Ghanaian to win the title of Miss Texas.
Addo-Yobo was born in Ghana however was raised in Canada and the U.S. She studied on the College of Texas at Dallas and in 2020 earned her bachelor’s diploma in psychology.
She’s going to obtain $20,000 in scholarship cash and can signify Texas within the Miss America contest.
In a put up on Instagram to rejoice her achievement, Addo-Yobo says she is “humbled, honored, and grateful” to be the 87th Miss Texas and hopes to “proceed making historical past with the Texas neighborhood and the Miss Texas class.”
She beforehand held the title of Miss Dallas in 2023 and in addition competed as Miss Southlake this 12 months.
In a “Miss Southlake” account put up she describes how she “misplaced out on many alternatives as an adolescent and school pupil” on account of her citizenship standing. It wasn’t till 2022 that she acquired U.S. citizenship.
Annette Addo-Yobo used the pageant’s platform to lift consciousness of a trigger that was necessary to her.
Her spoken phrase efficiency was a testomony to her dedication to elevating consciousness of autism, a trigger that originally resonated along with her as a younger little one.
“I need to convey autism security, consciousness and training to the frontlines of our programming and our laws. My youthful brother Andrew was recognized on the spectrum when he was age 4. And as an immigrant to this nation, he had a big studying curve to beat,” mentioned Addo-Yobo.
It appears successful the pageant has solely boosted Addo-Yobo’s motivation to make use of her platform, The SPARK Challenge, which addresses the structural inequities she has witnessed her brother Andrew face in varied areas.
“As a sibling to somebody on the spectrum, I observed the systemic inequities and lack of training and coaching very early,” Addo-Yobo continued in her Instagram put up. “It’s my mission to amplify the voices of the autistic neighborhood and be sure that legislators, decision-makers, and neighborhood members see us and combat for us.”