Miss Rhode Island Latina

We strive to make our pageant, Miss Rhode Island Latina a colorful and entertaining event that is appreciated not only by the Hispanic community, but by our culturally diverse Rhode Island neighbors as well.

I believe our Miss Rhode Island Latina pageant, provides an insight and understanding to bridge the truly few cultural differences between us, and also appreciate the vast number of similarities.

By showcasing the many contributions of our Latino community in a public forum, and by encouraging, recognizing, and rewarding excellence in our Hispanic women, we strive to raise a public awareness of the similarity between all people, not just our differences.

This understanding helps to strengthen the bonds of friendship and neighborly tolerance between us all, which binds us into one people, Rhode Islanders.

So when we send our contest winner, Miss Rhode Island Latina as our representative to Miss Latina US, we send a young lady who not only represents our Latina Community, but to share the very ideals that Rhode Island Founding Father Roger Williams set so long ago, tolerance, understanding and kindness.  She represents all Rhode Islanders.

We have been sending that message from Miss Rhode Island Latina to the world for the last 22 years and continue to hope for understanding and tolerance around the world..

- Mercedes Mendez
Founder of Miss Rhode Island Latina