A politically conservative, anti-abortion Catholic, Baraquio has been publicly active in supporting various Republican politicians and in speaking out against abortion.
She has appeared as a panelist on MTV's Pageant School: Becoming Miss America and on the conservative talk show, Hannity, of the Fox News Channel.
From August 1999 to June 2000, Baraquio was a faculty member at Holy Family Catholic Academy in the Salt Lake subdivision of Honolulu.
[9] In 2001, Baraquio participated as Miss America in the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., and was acknowledged by President George W. Bush in his remarks.
[13] She was one of Senator Sam Brownback's (R-Kansas) earliest and most prominent supporters in the 2008 Republican presidential primary season.
She formally joined the Brownback campaign December 14, 2006,[14] and served on his presidential exploratory committee, where her main task was promoting the conservative Kansas senator in her native Hawaii.
[15] Baraquio said, "As a Catholic, I am proud to support this wonderful man who believes in the sanctity of every human life.