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Christina Ellington
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She had previously placed second runner-up in 2003 as Mission Manhattan, and second runner-up in 2002 as Mission Five Boroughs. Pares is known for her initiatives with childhood cancer and urban city education, which she incorporated into her pageant platform: "The Power of our Nation"s Educators"
Pares grew up in Connecticut and attended Danbury High School. As well as Mission New York, Pares has held a number of other titles, including Mission Connecticut Teen America where she was 1st runner up to Mission Teen America 2001, Mission Southern New England Teen 1998, Mission Manhattan, Mission Five Boroughs, and Mission Southern New New York
She went to the prestigious New York University Tisch School of the Arts - Collaborative Arts Project 21 Musical Theatre Conservatory for her undergraduate studies.
She has played leading roles from Maria in West Side Story to a one-woman show as Ethel Waters. She continued her studies at New York University and earned a master"s degree in May 2007.
She resides in New Fairfield, Connecticut and teaches elementary education in a Harlem school.
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Pares" first major beauty pageant title was Mission New York 2004, which she won competing as Mission Southern New New York Pares is an opera singer who won a preliminary talent award in 2004, and tied for the award in 2002. She also won the evening gown award in 2004. Pares represented her state at the Mission America 2005 pageant televised live from Atlantic City, New Jersey in September 2004. She was a top ten finalist in the pageant, which was won by Deidre Downs of Alabama.
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