Bronx native Amber Corbett will represent the USA in this year’s Miss Intercontinental pageant.
Photo by Gabriele Holtermann
A Black woman will represent the United States at the Miss Intercontinental beauty pageant this October for the first time in the competition’s 51-year history.
New York native and Bronx resident 23-year-old Amber Corbett had her official crowning debut as Miss Intercontinental USA 2023 with a meet and greet at The Ready Rooftop in the East Village on July 22.
This year, pageant participants sent in a virtual package competing for the coveted crown, instead of competing in person and being crowned on stage. Katherine McQuade, United States of America’s Miss 2023, had the honor of presenting Corbett with the sash and crown.
Corbett told amNewYork Metro she is excited and proud to represent her community as the first African-American Miss Intercontinental USA.
“Winning Miss Intercontinental USA felt like I was breaking a glass ceiling in itself because, in 51 years, there’s never been a Black Miss Intercontinental USA,” Corbett said.
When Corbett received the great news, she said she gasped and then started crying because she knew how much the win meant to her community.
“My grandmother came from a really small town in Alabama where when she was growing up, she could only go to the doctor on certain days,” Corbett said. “So to be able to be the first black Miss Intercontinental USA, I was beside myself.”
The marketing coordinator in ad sales at NBCUniversal Peacock and Scripted Development Division began competing in pageants when she was eleven. Corbett shared that she was extremely shy as a child.
“I was honestly practically mute. I wouldn’t really ever talk,” Corbett said.
Corbett entered her first competition after her mom Tiffany received a letter about pageants and how they can boost confidence.
“I just fell in love with pageantry,” Corbett said. “It really became a mother-and-daughter…
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