Anisa Phillips

Anisa Yanti Phillips (born 1987), is a beauty pageant contestant from Wisconsin.

Phillips won the Miss Wisconsin Teen USA pageant in Lake Delton, Wisconsin on October 31, 2004, competing against twenty-four other delegates. In the summer of 2005, she represented her state in the 23rd annual Miss Teen USA pageant broad cast live from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Phillips failed to place in the pageant, which was won by Allie LaForce of Ohio. Her other pageant experience includes being a finalist in the National American Miss Wisconsin Pageant in August 2003. [ [http://www.pcgazette.com/hometown/2003/aug03/capsules8-1.htm PHILLIPS COMPETES IN NATIONAL AMERICAN MISS] , Portage County Gazette, August 2003 (accessed 30 May 2006)]

Phillips was born in Hawaii, U.S. and is of Malaysian descent from her mother's side. She is the second Asian American to represent Wisconsin at the national teen pageant. Phillips graduated from Stevens Point Area Senior High School where she was an honors student and she served as class president during her junior and senior years and is currently a junior at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. She is heavily involved in volunteering work, and has traveled to Kenya where she spent six weeks helping at an orphanage.

Phillips is the eldest daughter of Dr. Victor D. Phillips and Dr. Mai Morshidi Phillips. Mr. Victor Phillips, a Texas-born St. Louis native, is the fourth dean of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point's College of Natural Resources. Ms. Mai Phillips, who was born and raised in Sarawak, Malaysia, on the island of Borneo, is an online course instructor for the Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education and senior scientist at UW-Stevens Point. She has one sister, Chiara, who is nine. She is also the niece of news anchor Stone Phillips, who spoke at her high school graduation in 2005.

Phillips gave up her Miss Wisconsin Teen USA crown to Bishara Dorre on October 15, 2005.

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References

* [http://www.pcgazette.com/hometown/2003/aug03/capsules8-1.htm PHILLIPS COMPETES IN NATIONAL AMERICAN MISS] , Portage County Gazette, August 2003 (accessed 30 May 2006)
* [http://www.asianwisconzine.com/MissWisconsinTeenUSA.html Anisa Yanti Phillips: Miss Wisconsin Teen USA] , Asian Wisconzine (accessed 30 May 2006)

External links

* [http://wisconsin.missusa.com/photos-miss_teen.html Photos of Phillips on the Miss Wisconsin Teen USA website]