She is the daughter of former beauty queen/model from th late 80s and a certified animal advocate/lover.
Best of luck in your Mutya journey Shannon!

Who is Shannon Robinson?

While I was born in Manila, I had the privilege of being a child of the world and received a broad education from different school systems in The Philippines, Tokyo, Thailand, The UK and then the US as a young adult. What I May lack in poise and pageant finesse, I make up for in knowledge and honest authenticity. My Father is and always has been a performing music artist and DJ and my mother was a Flight attendant as well as a Pageant Queen and Model. I think by having such creative parents (and I don’t think they realized this at the time – ha-ha) I never really viewed the path of life as something linear. Between that, and the constant change and readjustment to new places it somewhat conditioned me to know that you can always reinvent yourself and/or start over. Why choose now to compete in your first pageant with no former training? There were a lot of driving forces over the course of this year that brought me to this point. I could explain this in full and it would take an hour so I’ll say this- I absolutely could not handle it until now. Before this year I was unconfident, self-conscious, I cared about what people might say about my body, I cared about what I looked like from every angle, and I was just so deeply and truly insecure. I dedicated this year to self-love, to discipline, to health and to acceptance, it was really important for me to achieve for myself. The pageant was something that came around right when I started to come into myself, the age was extended to 28 years old, and I had some friends that saw my growth really push me to at least go to the screening. A big part of my had always wanted to and did it for my mom too, I ended up finding the same color swimsuit for my screening that she wore when she won best in swimsuit.

What do you represent as the winner of Mutya if you were to win?
I’m a woman finding themselves at the end of her twenties. I want women to know that they can do whatever they want to do and to not feel pressured or unworthy of anything just because pf past shortcomings or failures, we live, learn and we push forward. If I can be a 28-year-old woman that couldn’t face a mirror in January and crowned a Queen in December, it shows resilience and growth when you love and nurture YOURSELF. Symbolically or metaphorically as Shannon, Mutya ng Pilipinas 2022. I would say this; Pearls are incredibly rare, and the shape of these rare pearls are formed when sand gets into the mollusk and gets somewhat broken down within its shell. My mollusk simply let me out later than the other 29 pearls I stand with. What they gained in experience while I was still at the bottom of the ocean, represents the hard life lessons and the differentiating strength that I hope sets me apart. I have waited 28 years for something that clicked, that felt right and felt purposeful. I believe I can lead the year with an open heart, with empathy, with understanding, with experience, with an open mind and to continuously learn and improve throughout the process.

What is your advocacy? I’m extremely passionate I should say is fighting for equality for the LGBTQIA+ community. This community has so much history, color, life and has contributed so much to rights, culture, and society that the fact that they can’t have equal rights is something that I have a hard time accepting. Love is love. And You are who you feel like you are. Only you know who that person is. Apart from this, I am lucky to be raised by very philanthropic and giving family members that I find it hard to choose one thing to advocate for. My Dad has raised over 10 million pesos to benefit Filipino communities in need since the pandemic began and continues to do so. My grandmother’s and mom’s longstanding advocacy is for Missionaries of the Poor, they look after abandoned children with cerebral palsy and abandoned Lolo. I say this because disaster relief is imminent and will happen time and time again as the climate keeps changing so this is something we will all have to contribute to change. And to help the less fortunate when you can. In-kind, financials, word of mouth – anything helps, and I’ve seen how small donations can really impact somebody’s life.
I also dream of opening a non-profit pet cafe that’s strictly foster dogs and cats in which people can adopt within Metro Manila easier and help get stray dogs out of the pounds and into a place where they’ll always receive love.

Shannon Robinson
Mutya Ng Pilipinas Makati 2022
Aces and Queens Beauty Camp