Tara Teng (born August 17, 1988),[1] Chinese name Oi Kwan[2] is a Canadian former pageant winner.

Teng is the daughter of a Chinese Singaporean church pastor father and a European Canadian mother, and she was raised as a Christian.

Paul in Winnipeg, who had been working to implement laws to reduce the demand for prostitution in Canada and on improving awareness about human trafficking.

[9] In 2010 Teng won the Miss BC World contest[10][11] and the pageant's online People's Choice Award.

[17] In November 2011, Joy Smith and Bruce Stanton, Assistant Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, hosted a reception in Teng's honour, at which she gave a speech to Senators and MPs about human trafficking.

[17] Teng participated in an anti-human trafficking task force in her hometown of Langley, British Columbia, producing a report on measures the community could do to tackle it.

[25][26] In June 2011,[27] Teng visited towns and slums in Cambodia and Thailand where families had sold their daughters to sexual slavery.

[24] That same year the Joy Smith Foundation recognised her work in human rights by giving her its International Freedom Award,[25] and she was added to the Catalyst Conference's Young Influencers List.