Justine Ker
Identity Snapshot
- English: Justine Ker
- Chinese: —
- Era: -
- Geography: -
- Core roles: Taiwanese American (TAH Who’s Who)
- Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
Education
- Vanderbilt University — 2016 — M.S., Molecular and Cellular Biology
Family
- Father: Jenevieve Ker
- Mother: Jun-Ing Ker
- Cousin: Crystal Lee — Miss California 2013, 1st Runner-up Miss America 2014 (per corpus interview)
- HOLD: TAH profile lists Jenevieve as father / Jun-Ing as mother — the 2017 TaiwaneseAmerican.org interview says her dad earned a U.S. Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering; parent name/gender mapping unverified, do not auto-merge.
Role in the Community
- Crowned Miss Louisiana 2016, top 15 at Miss America 2017 — the first Taiwanese or Asian American to represent Louisiana on the national stage (oral/band-A record: An Interview with Justine Ker: A Taiwanese American Journey to Miss Louisiana, 2017-05).
- In the interview she describes herself as a proud 2nd-generation Taiwanese American from Choudrant, Louisiana (pop. 845); platform: “A Beautiful Mind: Promoting Positive Mental Health,” with mental-health outreach rooted in her Vanderbilt years.
- Took part in TaiwaneseAmerican.org’s impromptu roundtable on Asian American representation with cousin Crystal Lee and Boba Guys co-founders Bin Chen & Andrew Chau: Representation in the Asian American Community, 2017-06 (band A).
- Corpus check re-run 2026-09-21: hit set = whos1124, justineker interview, representation-apa, works/index only — all already absorbed above; nothing new absorbable.
- TAH Who’s Who entry recorded 2016-07: 07.
Sources
Related Pages
Corpus re-scan 2026-09-22 (deepen-x slice 09210800-19): fresh grep works/+articles/ — hit set unchanged from prior absorption; all records already wikilinked above. SKIP-deepen; nothing new absorbable.