I’m going exotic this year with Miss Myanmar and Miss Serre Leone. And Miss Ireland looks like no Irish girl named O’Reilly I’ve ever known. Immigration lives.
She's a favorite of the judges because she's a NASA employee (studying aeronautics) and she's black. Hence, she checks the boxes. The pageant is taking place at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, so the organization needs her to be in the Top 20 for obvious reasons.