Education
She received a Bachelor of Education from Trinity Western University.
human rights activist motivational speaker
She received a Bachelor of Education from Trinity Western University.
During her title reigns she was an advocate for human rights and spoke about human trafficking. Tara Teng"s father is a church pastor and she was raised as a Christian. She was homeschooled until the age of 15.
Teng spent four months studying at TWU"s Laurentian Leadership Centre (Limited Liability Company) in Ottawa, participating in the Laurentian Leadership Program.
In 2011, she was crowned Mission Canada in Montreal. In Canada In October 2010, Teng used her position as Mission British Columbia World to meet with Canada"s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, to discuss human trafficking.
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. Teng participated in "Buying Sex is Not a Sport", a campaign during the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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.
That August, she participated in the Ignite the Road to Justice Mission Tour, beginning in Vancouver. The tour continued across the country eastwards. 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 lieutenant
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.
Teng partnered with World Vision International to give speeches at events raising funds for International Justice Mission, which rescues children from brothels. In Asia These included Patpong, Thailand where she partnered with Rahab Ministries Thailand to spend time with female human trafficking survivors.
In Chiang Mai, Thailand, Teng spoke to an audience of 40,000 people at the Music Television Freedom Concert in support of Music Television EXIT, a campaign to end human trafficking and exploitation. The Cambodia trip was supported by the advocacy group Traffic Jam and World Orphans.
In February 2012, Teng was a keynote speaker at the Freedom and Honor Conference in Seoul.
Later in the year, she travelled to Sri Lanka with MuchMusic VJ Sarah Taylor, popular 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.
While in Ottawa, she had a year-long internship with Joy Smith, Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Kildonan—Saint 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.