Former Pageant Titleholder Makes History & Builds A Legacy! 

The Miss New Orleans Pageant made history this year when New Orleans native and young entrepreneur, Jennifer Connor produced this year's 80th Annual Miss New Orleans Pageant becoming the first African American owner and producer in its history. She is not only the first African American to own and produce a local preliminary pageant in the state of Louisiana for the Miss USA/Miss Universe system but the youngest. The Miss New Orleans Pageant is a local preliminary to Miss Louisiana USA/Miss Louisiana Teen USA (a state preliminary for the Miss USA/Miss Universe organization, owned in partnership by the Donald Trump Organization & NBC Universal); Mrs Louisiana America (a preliminary for Mrs America) & Miss Louisiana State. Jennifer will also be co-producing & choreographing the following upcoming pageants: Miss Texas Teen USA Pageant, Miss Bay Area USA Pageant & Miss Houston USA Pageant!

Jennifer is an alumnus of Tulane University where she cheered and was on the dean's list. She is the former Miss Texas United States 2008 and competed in the national Miss United States Pageant in Las Vegas. She held the title of Miss Louisiana United States 2010 where she featured on the ABC-26 "Good Morning New Orleans" show. Jennifer placed 1st runner up in the Miss New Orleans Pageant back in 2007 and is looking forward to the behind the scenes producer role.

Jennifer has a history of entrepreneurship, starting her very first business as a teen back in 2001. She is the founder and owner of Starlette Cheerleading & Dance, a company and youth program she started as a teen, and holds cheer & dance classes/clinics throughout the state of Louisiana and Texas for young girls. This past year, Jennifer visited schools including KIPP Elementary in New Orleans and Space Center Elementary in Houston where she served as a special guest speaker for their annual Career Day. Jennifer has always been active in any community in which she resides and over the years has served as a mentor and volunteer at youth and recreational centers including the Quillian Recreational Youth Center in Houston.

She will bring her years of experience in television, modeling and pageantry as a former pageant contestant, judge, coach and in helping behind the scenes. Jennifer has worked for CW 39 News in Houston where she did reporting and featured as a model in several fashion and news segments for the station. She featured as a finalist on ABC 13 "Making of a Houston Texans NFL Cheerleader", served as a commercial spokesperson for Houston Video Yellow Pages and worked as a spokesperson & sports reporter for Gladiatorsmagazine.com. Most recently, she was selected to take part in a commercial mini-documentary in Los Angeles as a spokesperson for Microsoft Bing and selected by the Page Parkes Corporation into the Center of Modeling & Acting, a company who helped train some of the biggest stars in Hollywood such as Angelina Jolie, Shemar Moore, Hilary Dufff and Tyson Beckford.

This year, Jennifer featured in the February Issue of A'telier Magazine, modeled runways for  Fashion Week in Houston and is listed as a model/actress with Ethnicity Models & Talent, who cast for a number of major projects including one of BET's top television shows "The Game". 

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On-Camera Reporting; Commercial/Print Modeling & Acting

Former "Miss.Texas United States 2008" Titleholder
(Competed in the national "Miss United States 2008" pageant in Las Vegas)
Former "Miss.Louisiana United States 2010" Titleholder
(Appeared on ABC 26 News "Good Morning New Orleans" show)

Microsoft Bing Mini-Documentary (Spokesperson/Model)

Worked for CW 39 News (The CW Network)
-News Anchor/Reporter Trainee
-On Air TV Model for "Mia Gradney's Style Files" News/Fashion Segments

ABC's Making of a Houston Texans NFL Cheerleader (Featured Finalist)

Houston Video Yellow Pages (Commercial Spokesperson/Model)

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