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Nina Davuluri ((テルグ語:నీనా దావులురి); born April 20, 1989) is an American public speaker and advocate. As Miss America 2014 and Miss New York 2013, Davuluri was the first Indian American (and second Asian American) to be crowned Miss America and the first to perform a Bollywood dance on the Miss America stage. She is also "the first Miss America to receive xenophobic and racist comments about being a terrorist or Muslim extremist,"〔 related to misrepresentations of her ethnic background. ==Childhood and education== Davuluri was born on April 20, 1989 in Syracuse, New York, to Hindu Telugu parents 〔 from Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India.〔 Her mother, Sheela Davuluri, is an information-technology specialist and her father, Chaudhury Davuluri, is a gynecologist.〔 Davuluri's older sister, Meena, is a student at SUNY Upstate Medical University and president of the university's student chapter of the American Medical Association. When she was six weeks old, Davuluri was brought to live with her grandmother and aunt in Vijayawada. She stayed there until she was two-and-a-half years old, when her parents brought her back to the United States.〔 Davuluri returned to India each summer to study Indian dance,〔 and speaks Telugu. She initially grew up in Oklahoma, moving with her family to St. Joseph, Michigan when she was 10 years old.〔 Davuluri then studied ballet, tap, and jazz dance, and was a "high school marching band clarinetist, cheerleader, varsity tennis player and Science Olympiad team member at St. Joseph High School."〔 She graduated from St. Joseph High in 2007, the same year that her parents moved to Fayetteville, New York. Davuluri stayed in Michigan however, and was initially on the wait-list for the University of Michigan. She thus began college at Michigan State University, transferring to the University of Michigan in the spring semester of her freshman year.〔 Davuluri was a Sigma Kappa (Alpha Mu),〔 a member of the Maya Indian-dance group,〔 was on the Dean's List, and received Michigan Merit and National Honor Society Awards. She graduated from the University of Michigan in 2011, with a B.S. in Brain Behavior and Cognitive Science. Originally a pre-med student (she returned to New York after graduation and took nine pre-med courses at Le Moyne College),〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Nina Davuluri launches her whirlwind year as Miss America in New York City )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Miss America Nina Davuluri Interview 'Applying to Medical School )〕 Davuluri announced midway through her tenure as Miss America that she would not be applying to medical school.〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Miss America Nina Davuluri no longer wants to be a doctor, says family pressured her )〕 Instead, in the future she plans to begin an MPP-MBA (Master of Public Policy-Master of Business Administration) program, with an emphasis on international relations, as she hopes to one day be the United States Ambassador to India.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nina Davuluri」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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