Education
Washington University in Saint Louis.
Washington University in Saint Louis.
In the summer of 2005, she represented her state in the 23rd annual Mission Teen United States of America pageant broadcast live from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her other pageant experience includes being a finalist in the National American Mission Wisconsin Pageant in August 2003. Phillips was born in Hawaii, United States. and is of Malaysian descent on her mother"s side.
She is the second Asian American to represent Wisconsin at the national teen pageant.
Phillips graduated from Stevens Point Area Senior High School where she was an honors student and served as class president during her junior and senior years. She is also an alumna of Louis.
She is involved in volunteering work, and has traveled to Kenya where she spent six weeks helping at an orphanage. Phillips is the eldest daughter of Doctor Victor Doctorate. Phillips and Doctor Mai Morshidi Phillips.
Her father, a Professor of Forestry and Director of Global Environmental Management at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point (UW-Stevens Point).
Her mother, who was born and raised in Sarawak, Malaysia, on the island of Borneo, is an online course instructor for the Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education and a senior scientist at UW–Stevens Point. She has one sister, Chiara, who is nine. Phillips gave up her Mission Wisconsin Teen United States of America crown to Bishara Dorre on October 15, 2005.