Jessica Trisko-Darden
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| Born |
Jessica Nicole Trisko 1984 (age 32–33) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
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| Hair colour | Brown |
| Eye colour | Hazel |
| Title(s) |
Miss Earth 2007 (winner) Miss Earth Canada 2007 (winner) Miss Universe Canada 2007 (top 10 semi-finalist) |
| Major competition(s) |
Miss Earth Canada 2007 (winner) Miss Universe Canada 2007 (top 10 semi-finalist) |
Jessica Nicole Darden née Trisko (born 1984) is a Canadian academic, activist, model and beauty queen.
Trisko's father is of Ukrainian heritage, and her mother is Filipino. Her first language is English, but she also speaks Russian and French.
After winning the Miss Earth Canada pageant, Trisko represented Canada at Miss Earth 2007 and became the first Canadian to win the Miss Earth 2007 title. She had previously placed in the top ten at Miss Universe Canada 2007.
She studies the impact of foreign aid on repression and civil war. She has written and published journals on social science, humanities, and international security which were used in various international conferences.
In August 1, 2016, she was one of the guest judges in the final Miss Earth United States 2016 pageant in the Schlesinger Concert Hall, Washington, D.C.
Raised in Vancouver, Trisko moved to Montreal, Quebec to attend McGill University where she excelled as a student-athlete and obtained a Joint Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in 2004. She later lived in the United States and Russia while completing a Master of Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Trisko then returned to Montreal to begin a Ph.D. in Political Science at McGill in 2006.
Trisko obtained a Ph.D. in Political Science from McGill University in 2012 was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario. Her research has been funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the McGill-Universite de Montreal Centre for International Peace and Security Studies.
Trisko has published in edited volumes and the journals Central Asian Survey and the McGill Foreign Affairs Review. She has presented at numerous academic conferences including the International Studies Association 2009 and 2008 conferences, the ISSS/ISAC 2009 conference, the Association for the Study of Nationalities 2007 conference, various McGill-Universite de Montreal Research Group in International Security conferences, and the CDAI-CDFAI 2006 conference.
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