Rosario Rivera is so excited to
announce that she will be competing in next year’s Miss California USA pageant!
Los Angeles, CA – September 5, 2014 – Rosario Rivera is currently an
undergraduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles studying
Linguistics and Psychology. After everything she has been through, just being
here is already a dream come true. However, if Rosario’s experience here has
taught her anything, it is that she can expand her horizons even more.
Rosario Rivera was raised in Orange County, CA amongst a diverse
background of people of all ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Unfortunately, her family had always been on the low end of this spectrum.
Growing up she had little opportunities to be involved in the activities and
wished to become a part of desperately because of our economic hardship. Her
family suffered and battled through times of clinical depression and the mental
deterioration of her older sister who was diagnosed with schizophrenia right
after high school. During this time, learning in school became a source of
support and a positive outlet for her to escape the hardship. The journey to
cohere out of her childhood experience was trying, but through all of these
difficult she stayed strong and confident that I could still persevere in the
severe of adversity. What this experience taught her overall was that education
could free one from their pain and open up a million windows of opportunity.
Rosario is now embarking on a new kind of journey. A journey to not only
take what she has gained from unfortunate circumstances and persevere for
herself, but to become a leader for those in a similar situations. She chose to
run for Miss California USA because it is more to her than just a beauty
pageant; it is an outlet for endless personal growth as well as an opportunity
to reach her dream. Her dream is to spread awareness and education about mental
illness and its increasing impact on low income families, and advocate for
organizations that bring the much needed support for children who find
themselves in these unfortunate circumstances.
With your support, I will be able to cover all costs of her gowns,
swimsuits, pageant materials and pageant fees. Any donation is sincerely
appreciated and will be used directly for these expenditures.
To learn more about Rosario
Rivera or to help support her pageant journey, please visit:
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Rosario
Rivera
Los Angeles,
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