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Melissa Queenie Sapini was officially crowned Miss Universe Haiti 2025 in a special ceremony held on Saturday, October 18 at The Palm Theater (Embassy Suites) in Boca Raton, Florida. The 22-year-old Haitian-American TV host will now prepare to represent Haiti at the Miss Universe 2025 pageant in Thailand this November. No stranger to pageantry, the new Miss Universe Haiti is a former Miss Massachusetts USA. She competed in Miss USA 2024 in Los Angeles, California and made the Top 10. Her advocacy centers on literacy, inspired by her grandmother, who couldn't write her own name. She co-founded The Two Queens Foundation with her mother to help fund education in Haiti and joined a Boston-based nonprofit that delivers free books to underserved communities. Melissa was raised in North Attleboro, Massachusetts and is a graduate of Suffolk University in Boston with a degree in broadcast journalism. "For Haiti, and for every Haitian in every corner of the world. This is bigger than o...

Mideline Phelizord was crowned Miss Haiti 2022 (Miss Universe Haiti 2022) on Friday, August 12 at Hotel Villa Cana in Cap-Haitien. The 27-year-old law science graduate and entrepreneur from Port-au-Prince edged out seven other finalists to win her title. She succeeds last year's titleholder Pascale Bélony and will represent her Caribbean country at Miss Universe 2022. Valierie Alcide and Murielle Brunache were named the first and second runners-up, respectively. The new Miss Haiti is no stranger to pageantry. In 2018, she was first runner-up in Miss World Haiti and was also named Miss Supranational Haiti. She went on to participate in Miss Supranational 2018 where she was awarded Top Model Caribbean. Mideline is the owner of the Silhouette Agency for aspiring professional models and she also founded the Silhouette Foundation to help her community. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Miss Haiti Org (@misshaitiorg) Photos: Miss Haiti