Jenaae Jackson
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Jenaae Jackson is a Jamaican beauty queen
Beauty Queen
"Beauty Queen" is the second song from Roxy Music's second album, For Your Pleasure. The lyrics refer to Ferry's girlfriend, Valerie Leon, one-time UK beauty queen, B-movie actress and model working in the Newcastle area, circa 1973.-Musicians:...

 and model. She was crowned as Miss Earth Jamaica 2009 in August 2009. She is the third representative of Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

 to the international pageant, Miss Earth
Miss Earth
Miss Earth is an annual international beauty pageant promoting environmental awareness. Miss Earth is also one of the most publicized beauty contests in the world....

, since it started in 2001. She was crowned by Miss Earth Jamaica 2008, Simone Burke. Jackson represented Jamaica in the Miss Earth 2009
Miss Earth 2009
Miss Earth 2009, the 9th edition of Miss Earth beauty pageant, was held at the Boracay Ecovillage Resort and Convention Center, in the Island of Boracay, Malay, Philippines last November 22, 2009....

.

Early age

Jenaae Jackson was born on June 1, 1990 in Kingston, Jamaica
Kingston, Jamaica
Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island...

. She studied at Williams Prep and Dunrobin Primary School, both in Jamaica, before her family went to reside in Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

. Even then, she would go home to Jamaica every summer and whenever she has the chance. As an only child in a single parent home, she had to learn how to be independent and self sufficient from an early age.

Present time

Jackson is an entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...

 and co-owner of Executive Travel & Communication Inc. a virtual communication company. The Going Green initiative is one of her projects, which promotes environmental awareness to the community.

Miss Caribbean pageant

In December 2005, Jackson represented Jamaica in the Miss Teen Florida Caribbean pageant, where she won the title. In 2007, she traveled to the British Virgin Islands
British Virgin Islands
The Virgin Islands, often called the British Virgin Islands , is a British overseas territory and overseas territory of the European Union, located in the Caribbean to the east of Puerto Rico. The islands make up part of the Virgin Islands archipelago, the remaining islands constituting the U.S...

 to compete in the Miss Caribbean World pageant. Later that year she entered Caribbean Model Search in Kingston, Jamaica. She has modeled for designers such as Heatherette
Heatherette
Heatherette is a fashion company and design house run by and former Club Kid Richie Rich, located in New York City. Heatherette came out with a bang in 1999 when they began collaborating on t-shirts and leather goods as a hobby on their living room floor...

's Richie Rich and companies, JC Penny, as well as various designers.

Miss Earth 2009

On August 28, 2009, Jackson was crowned Miss Earth Jamaica 2009. She rrepresented Jamaica in the 9th edition of the Miss Earth
Miss Earth
Miss Earth is an annual international beauty pageant promoting environmental awareness. Miss Earth is also one of the most publicized beauty contests in the world....

 beauty pageant in the Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

. The Miss Earth winner serves as the spokesperson for the Miss Earth Foundation
Miss Earth Foundation
Miss Earth Foundation is a non-stock, non-profit organization, which serves as the environmental-social-humanitarian outreach arm of Miss Earth beauty pageant. It was established to institutionalize the environmental mission of Miss Earth...

, the United Nations Environment Programme
United Nations Environment Programme
The United Nations Environment Programme coordinates United Nations environmental activities, assisting developing countries in implementing environmentally sound policies and practices. It was founded as a result of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in June 1972 and has its...

 (UNEP) and other environmental organizations. It is one of the three largest international beauty pageant in the world in terms of the number of national-level competitions which take place to select participants in the international finals.

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