María José Acosta

Miss Canada Latina 2024-2025

María José Acosta is a Dominican-Canadian legal intervenient, penal mediator, beauty queen, and entrepreneur based in Montreal, Quebec. Born in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, she has built a multifaceted career spanning the legal, fashion, and pageantry industries.

Acosta holds a diploma in criminology from the Université de Montréal and pursued additional studies in law. She is fluent in Spanish, English, French, and Italian, a skill that has supported her work with culturally diverse communities throughout Quebec. Professionally, she serves as a legal intervenient and penal mediator with Equijustice Montréal, where she assists individuals involved in criminal and mental health proceedings and promotes restorative justice.

In parallel with her legal career, Acosta has established herself as an award-winning beauty queen and international titleholder. Her accolades include Miss Latina Canada, Miss Earth Quebec, Miss Grand Dominican Republic Santiago 2025, and 2nd Runner-Up at Miss America Latina Del Mundo. Making Acosta the first Canadian beauty queen in the system to achieve the highest-ranking placement in international pageantry by earning the title at Miss America Latina Del Mundo 2024.

She is recognized for combining advocacy, elegance, and public speaking to raise awareness on issues related to women’s empowerment, resilience, and chronic illness.

Acosta is also the founder of a boutique pageant coaching and styling business, where she provides mentoring, interview preparation, image consulting, and wardrobe styling to aspiring contestants. Through this venture, she has helped emerging titleholders develop confidence and refine their stage presence.

Following her diagnosis with type 1 diabetes in adulthood, Acosta has spoken openly about the discipline and perseverance required to manage a chronic illness while maintaining a demanding professional and public life. Her advocacy focuses on encouraging others to embrace resilience, self-confidence, and purpose.

Known for her polished style, multilingual abilities, and commitment to service, Maria Jose Acosta continues to bridge the worlds of justice, entrepreneurship, and international pageantry.

Alejandra Espinosa Miss Canada Latina 2023

My name is Alejandra Espinosa Herrera, and I am 23 years old. I was born in Bogota, Colombia, and I moved to Canada when I was 14 years old. Currently, I work as a CEO assistant and a Health and Safety Representative in a local company. Additionally, I am employed at a well-known gym in the fitness industry. In my free time, I volunteer at local animal shelters.

I participated in the Canada Latina Pageants with the hope of using my title as Miss Canada Latina 2023 to promote unity and support within our Latin community, especially for Latin women who are far from home. As immigrants, we face significant challenges, and it is crucial for us to stand together and support one another.

Furthermore, as an animal lover, I am passionate about raising awareness of the urgent need for help in local shelters. With the rising cost of living, more people are surrendering their animals or abandoning them on the streets. This puts a strain on shelters, as they have to accommodate more animals with limited resources. Since animal shelters are not government-funded, they rely on volunteers and donations. While I cannot save them all by myself, I can contribute by supporting organizations that work towards this cause.

I encourage our community to lend a helping hand, whether it is by assisting our neighbors or volunteering for organizations that resonate with us.

With Love,
Your Miss Canada Latina 2023-2024

Nicole Bogoljubsky Miss Canada Latina 2022 

Nicole Bogoljubsky is a 20-year-old women born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. Nicole is bilingual, she is fluent in both Spanish and English. She loves to embrace and represent her culture wherever she goes. Nicole is currently in the final year of her Systems and Computer Engineering degree. She considers this to be one of her greatest accomplishments, as it is one that has required years of hard work, discipline, and dedication. From a young age, Nicole’s motivation to study in the field of engineering has always been her father, also an engineer, whom she admires deeply.

Nicole’s life in Canada began back in 2014, when her family immigrated in search for better opportunities. Although adapting to the new country at first was not easy for Nicole, she persevered through these very difficult times. In recognition of this, she was awarded the “Striving for Success Award” in school. Throughout her time in high school, Nicole was always an Honour Roll Student and a recipient of multiple awards. She was also nominated for the Schulich Leader Scholarship in representation of her high school graduating year and was awarded an entrance scholarship for her first year of University studies.

Nicole is very passionate about swimming, music, and dance. Growing up, she has always been part of competitive swimming teams, dance academies, and classical orchestras. She learned how to play multiple instruments including the viola, oboe, harp, and cuatro (Venezuelan instrument). She believes being part all of these activities have made her become such a disciplined, organized, and responsible individual.

Nicole likes to dedicate every one of her achievements to her parents. She has the upmost respect for them as they have raised her to become the woman she is today, an individual with good values, morals, and principles. She is a persevering woman who seeks to be an inspiration for the youth through integral beauty and always demonstrating the importance of being humble, grateful, and optimistic in life.

Claudia Garcia Vigoa Miss Canada Latina 2021

Claudia Cristina García Vigoa, born in Cuba in 1995, began her studies at the age of 10 years old teaching classical ballet. During her student stage as a dancer, she participated in several international and national competitions, where she also had the opportunity to represent the Cuban School of Ballet in the exchange of Academies held in Toronto in 2013. After graduating as a dancer-teacher in 2015, she joined the ranks of the National Ballet of Cuba for 5 years, a company with which she toured several countries around the world (United States, Costa Rica, Canada, El Salvador, Mexico) with presentations in prestigious theaters. In 2020 she moved to Canada in search of a better personal and professional development. During the Covid-19 pandemic she taught ballet classes online for ballet academies in Chile and Mexico. She began her English language studies in unison with her participation in the Miss Canada Latina beauty pageant, where she was crowned queen of the year. She is currently studying Digital Marketing, which will be a great support for her future.