Toronto.- In its sixth production year, the second year it’s being televised nationally as a reality series on Nuevo Mundo Television, thirty contestants will take the stage in Toronto on August 28, 2009 for the annual Miss Latina Canada Pageant.

Among those thirty contestants, one will surely stand out. Chellie Ana Rita Mejia is the raven-haired, chocolate complexioned, fast-talking, self-proclaimed “bad girl” of pageantry, and this year she will represent her Dominican heritage, her home town of San Cristobal, and the city of Toronto in the 2010 search for Miss Latina Canada.

The 24 year old is a classically trained pianist, singer and songwriter, and has been performing since the age of three. She has performed in every talent show, fashion show, church function, pageant, and mall food court table top that she has come across.

She has served as a cheerleader for a nationally acclaimed varsity squad and for Toronto’s professional football team, the Toronto Argonauts. This is not her first time on the pageant circuit, having competed in two national pageants before this one.  She won them both.

James Avery (Uncle Phil from the Fresh Prince of BelAir) has complimented her great voice and beautiful personality. The Jamaica Gleaner has described her performance as “…A-class … strumming the keys with her fingers and making beautiful music with her voice.”

She is the President and CEO of Feroz Enterprises, Inc. and holds a degree from the University of Toronto in Biochemistry and Biotoxicology. She is currently working on attaining her Masters degree in Biomedical Engineering. THAT MEANS SHE’S SMART.

She’s not scared of needles, loves a good thunderstorm, is a little scared of horror movies (which is probably why she likes them so much), and she wouldn’t mind living on a roller coaster.