Miss Minnesota Latina

Since 1986, beautiful and intelligent women from different Hispanic backgrounds and U.S. States have represented the MISS LATINA US™ title, formerly MISS LATINA USA, and their participation in the Miss Latin America® Pageant has been a credit to the vast and talented Latino population in this great nation.

This year for the first time in the history of the state of Minnesota there will be one Latina Pageant that will ve at the nationals representing the state.

Miss Minnesota Latina State Director Joyce Graciela Stellick, and Larry Thompson publisher of Eventos sin Fronteras, have taken the initiative to bring the Latina Minnesota Pageant to the state.
“Miss Minnesota Latina pageant is the stepping stone where Latinas can take advantage to further their careers, whatever their field of endeavor may be. Minnesota’s Latinas begin the millennium promoting their integral beauty and goodwill for which they are well known.¨said Graciel Stellick, state director of Latina Minnesota Pageant.

Pageant contestants must 18 to 26 years old. Girls from 13 to 17 years old can compete in the Miss Teen Minnesota Latina Beauty Pageant. Contestants must be of Hispanic or Latino ancestry, a resident of Minnesota for at least six month and either employed or in school full time.
Regional pageants will be in July; the state contest will be in August. State winners compete in the national pageant in October in San Antonio. Winners receive, among other things, a $5,000 scholarship and a modeling contract. The Miss Latina Beauty Pageant