10 things about Miss Universe Guatemala 2022 Ivana Batchelor

Elizabeth Ivana Batchelor Batchelor represented Guatemala in Miss Grand International and Miss Universe. These are two of the six grand slam international beauty pageants for women along with Miss World, Miss International, Miss Earth and Miss Supranational.

BIOGRAPHY

Batchelor is a Guatemalan translator, model and beauty queen born and raised in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. She is the co-founder of IB Model Agency, which manages and trains models.

As a mental health advocate, Batchelor works with youth in many public schools to help suicide prevention in Guatemala. Here are 10 more things about her:

1. She is Miss Teen Quetzaltenango 2017.
2. From 2018 to 2024, she attended the Quetzaltenango campus of Universidad Mesoamericana where she earned a bachelor’s degree in communication sciences.
3. She won Miss Teen Nacional de las Fiestas de Independencia 2018.
4. She is Miss Supranational Quetzaltenango 2019.
5. She was Miss Supranational Guatemala 2019 first runner-up.
6. She is Miss Grand Guatemala 2020.
7. She was Miss Grand International 2020 second runner-up.
8. She is Miss Universe Guatemala 2022.
9. She was a Miss Universe 2022 candidate.
10. On October 28, 2024, she turned 24.

TIMELINE

Batchelor is 5’11” tall. She is fluent in Spanish and English and she works as a translator for the two languages.

2010s

• In January 2018, she became a Universidad Mesoamericana student.
• On September 6, 2018, she represented Quetzaltenango at Miss Teen Nacional de las Fiestas de Independencia 2018 and won the title.
• On September 8, 2019, she represented Quetzaltenango at Miss Supranational Guatemala 2019 and competed against nine other candidates. She was runner-up to Miss Supranational Guatemala 2019 Andrea Radford.

2020s

• On March 16, 2020, she was crowned Miss Grand Guatemala 2020.
• On March 27, 2021, she represented Guatemala at Miss Grand International 2020 and competed against 62 other candidates at the SHOW DC in Bangkok, Thailand. She was second runner-up to Abena Appiah of the United States.
• On June 3, 2022, she was officially appointed as Miss Universe Guatemala 2022.
• On January 14, 2023, she represented Guatemala at Miss Universe 2022 and competed against 83 other candidates at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. She was unplaced.
• On February 8, 2023, she participated in Tebow Down Guatemala‘s Night To Shine 2023 in Quetzaltenango.
• On March 26, 2023, she visited Chicabal Lake in the municipal boundary of San Martín Sacatepéquez, Quetzaltenango.
• On May 4, 2023, she visited Refugio del Quetzal in San Marcos, Guatemala.
• On May 30, 2023, she and Miss Universe 2022 R’Bonney Gabriel reunited at a Smile Train event in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
• On June 20, 2023, she visited Laguna Brava in Nentón, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
• On August 6, 2023, she crowned her successor Miss Universe Guatemala 2023 Michelle Cohn at the Gran Sala Efraín Recinos of Centro Cultural Miguel Ángel Asturias in Guatemala City.
• In December 2024, she graduated from Universidad Mesoamericana.