WASHINGTON, DC: Mansee Sangani, 21, from Norwood, Massachusetts, was crowned the winner of the Miss India USA 2014 pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey, earlier this month.

The pageant, sponsored by Jewel of India, was held at the Caesars Casino and Resort on March 2. In addition to Sangani, the pageant crowned Shruti Thakkar as Miss India International and Priyanca Modi as Miss Jewel of India.

Sangani was born in India but raised in New Zealand, a country she calls “beautiful.” She finished grade school at Norwood High School, and went on to complete her bachelor’s degree in biology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is currently pursuing a graduate degree in management, and is working full-time at Foundation Medicine, Inc., a leading cancer care treatment center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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