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UE STUDENT JOINS MISS WORLD PH PAGEANT

/ 24 May 2021

A STUDENT of the University of the East has joined the Miss World Philippines beauty pageant.

Trisha Martinez, Miss UE 2018, is among the 45 official candidates for the 2021 Miss World Philippines.

The Miss World Philippines Grand Coronation Night will be on July 11, 2021.

A dentistry student, Martinez was also crowned Las Casas Lakambini, a pageant patterned after the search for the pre-war Manila Carnival Queens.

In 2017, she was the winner of Miss Philippine Dental Students Association. She is also the titleholder of Mutya ng Pila 2015 and was a contestant in Bodyshots 2016.

Martinez advocates for the promotion of oral health and the prevention of diseases.

She is a member of the The Smile Initiative, a non-profit organization.