Lucia Hou is an Australia philanthropist, photographer, media manager, and a winner of several beauty queen titles, she featured in over 50 magazines and news articles and she was awarded the 2018 Woman of Year internationally by World Class Beauty Queen for her philanthropy work around the world. Hou made the front cover of Influential people magazine as top 10 Influential woman of the year 2018. Early years Hou, the youngest of 11 children, was born in Laos in 1976 and came to Australia at one year of age, she has two children. Hou told Herald Sun she got involved with charities to be a good role model for her children and to leave a legacy. Hou and her family escaped during the war in Laos across the Mekong river whilst soldiers guarded the banks settling in Australia. Philanthropy Hou has worked with many charities and not for profit organizations such as; Charity Partner of Bully Zero Australia partner of the Australian Teenage Expo Partner of Sonya and Sacha Show. Project Karma Ambassador The Victorian Cultural Association Inc. The Holi Festival Indian Film Festival of Melbourne Heart Kids Australia Women In Need Foundation Western Health Foundation CDF Transport Charity Scleroderma Australia Anti Poverty Week Hou has been appointed as of 2019 multicultural ambassador for Mental Health Foundation Australia (MHFA). Professions Hou runs a building and maintenance company as well as being a professional photographer she is a trained painter and plasterer. Awards Mrs Coral Sea Globe 2016 Mrs Oceana Globe 2017 World Class Beauty Queens 2018 Woman of the year References External links 1976 births Living people Australian philanthropists Australian beauty pageant winners Australian female martial artists Australian Wing Chun practitioners