Rachel
Canada
Age
26 years old
Who am I?

Hi, my name is Rachel George! And I am not the stereotypical model being only 5'3" and Southeast Asian. Originally from Singapore, I have grown up in Canada, Vancouver since I was 3 years old and have fallen in love with Vancouver rain (I know I sound crazy). I am of Southeast Asian descent (half Indian and half Chinese) and would love the opportunity to be apart of the representation of Southeast Asians on TV/Online! I am a Mechatronic Systems Engineering student passionate about self-development, empowering women in S.T.E.M, creating herself and developing new and inspired skills; technological and interpersonal. Thrilled to use my integrated mechatronics engineering skills to create systems that adhere to the basic pillars of sustainability with beneficial socio-economic impacts. I believe it is so imperative to encourage women in STEM, to not only believe in their academic abilities but to believe in themselves. I have often been described as happy, outgoing, responsible, communicative, caring, intuitive, competitive, organized and most importantly I laugh at everything! I also love learning about anything and everything that I can, especially when meeting others and hearing their stories :).


What do I think about A New Kind of Beautiful TV series Presented by The Fashion Hero TV series?

Chance and hope. That is what Fashion Hero provides, the chance to inspire and envoke hope in impressionable young girls and boys looking for positive, happy and humble role models who look and have personalities just like them and who come from backgrounds of adversity just ... like ... them! Not unrealistic idealistic models who are so far out of reach. It is amazing what this TV show provides and I would be absolutely honored to be apart of its core values and beliefs.


Why would I be a great role model for this generation and inspire people as the new face of A New Kind Of Beautiful TV series Presented by The Fashion Hero?

I have always felt a desire to speak out for others and fight for my rights as a woman. I continue to live by being a better person than I was yesterday with a voracious appetite to live, learn and grow; practicing patience, self-forgiveness and learning from my mistakes continually. I understand the value of family education and my womanhood. And aspire to become a fierce woman like my mother who has always been my strongest female role model despite passing away when I was 10 months old. There is still a considerable amount of stigma about women in Engineering. I constantly feel the weight of my gender and have felt overly feminized as an engineering student. I have worked in industrial settings in the past where people often belittled me or mistook me for working as a receptionist as opposed to being in a technical position - all because I dress and wear more makeup than what is expected of someone in my role. It is experiences like this that I am constantly battling every single day in order to do my work and why it is so important to encourage more women in STEM. Regardless, I love what I am learning and these experiences have become the norm to me -but they really shouldn't be! And that is why I am so proud to be in my field and as a result of it, I have flourished from a shy, unconfident, passive and unsure women into one of confidence and perseverance because of my need to be a strong female role model for other young women as well! I want to prove that all women are capable of strong positions and that the way they look and behave does not define their intelligence or capability. I have always been a fighter and within my soul have felt a need to always prove stereotypes about women wrong. Furthermore, being of South Asian descent I continue to be a minority of representation in Canada and many other places :(. Not only am I a representative for women in STEM but Southeast Asians in North America as well!


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