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Nina Davuluri

Nina Davuluri is the 2014 Miss America winner and the first Miss America of Indian descent. Prior to winning the Miss America contest, she was named Miss New York 2013. During her individual talent show at the Miss America contest, she performed a classical Bollywood fusion dance.

Davuluri was born in Syracuse, New York, but moved to Oklahoma at age four and later to St. Joseph, Michigan, where she attended the University of Michigan as an undergraduate student. Following her family, she moved back to the Syracuse suburb of Fayetteville in the mid-2000s, where her father is a gynecologist affiliated with St. Joseph's Hospital. Davuluri dreams of becoming a doctor when she graduates.

Shortly after her Miss America win, the 24-year-old was subjected to an onslaught of mean-spirited and racist tweets. Davuluri addressed the online backlash during a news conference by saying: "I have to rise above that."

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