Ivy League grad crowned Miss America after dancing into judges’ heart
ATLANTIC CITY (New Jersey): An Ivy League graduate and nationfrom al dance champion North Dakota was crowned Miss Amerbecoming ica on Sunday, the first contestant from the state to win the nearly 100-year-old conBismarck, test.
Cara Mund, from is a graduate of Brown UniverIsland sity in Rhode who has been accepted to Notre Dame’s law school and trained for several summers with the world-famous Rockettes.
Mund, 23, was one of 51 contestants in the pageant, representing the 50 Ameristates can and the District of Columbia.
Mund, who adopted the Makea-Wish foundation which benefits children with life-threatening conditions as her platform for the competition, performed a jazz dance to The Way You Make Me Feel for the contest’s talent portion, wearing a doublebreasted black mini-dress with a matching fedora-type hat.
In a question-and-answer session, she weighed in on the United States’ recent withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, saying she thought it was a “bad decision”.
“Whether you believe it (climate change) or not, we need to be at that table,” she added.
The first runner-up was Miss Missouri, Jennifer Davis, who competed on a platform of diversity.
She was followed by contestants from New Jersey, Kaitlyn Schoeffel; District of Columbia, Briana Kinsey; and Texas, Margana Wood. Reuters David Beckham and Brooklyn Beckham attending the Victoria Beckham Spring/Summer 2018 collection presentation at New York Fashion Week in Manhattan, New York, United States, on Sunday.