LAS VEGAS, NV - Miss New Jersey Chhavi Verg made Indian-Americans proud coming in as the runner-up at the Miss USA 2017 beauty pageant, held at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center here on May 14, narrowly missing the crown. Kara McCullough, a 25-year-old chemist working for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, was crowned as Miss USA. She will go on to compete on the Miss Universe contest. The District of Columbia has...
won back-to-back Miss USA titles. The second runner-up was Miss Minnesota Meridith Gould, who is studying apparel retail merchandising at the University of Minnesota Verg, 20, is a student at Rutgers University studying marketing and Spanish. Verg was born in India and grew up in Edison, New Jersey. In high school she was active in several organizations including Odyssey of the Mind, HAWKS, Project Sunshine, Model United Nations, Spanish Honors Society. She graduated from high school in 2015.
At Rutgers, Chhavi is a Marketing Assistant Director at the Rutgers University Programming Association , an organization that plans, markets, and executes up to 200 events for the campus community, and is a member of Women BUILD, a leadership program designed for women undergraduates at Rutgers Business School.[4]?
In 2015, Chhavi was 4th-runner-up for the Miss Teen New Jersey Pageant. It was not until 2017 that Chhavi earned the crown for Miss New Jersey. The primary cause that Verg advocates for is women’s’ education and empowerment.
Verg is a trained Bharatanatyam dancer and performed her Arangetram after 12 years of training.[4] She is fluent in multiple languages; English, Hindi, Gujarati, Spanish, and Mandarin.
Verg has a passion for health and fitness and is an ISSA certified personal trainer. Recently, she started her own vegan/vegetarian health and fitness company and advocates for a healthy lifestyle. Fifty-one women representing each state and the nation’s capital participated in the decades-old competition. The beauty pageant this year included five women who immigrated to the U.S. at a young age and now as citizens hoped to represent the nation on a global stage. These included Verg and the women representing Florida, North Dakota, Hawaii and Connecticut. The top five finalists where asked different questions that touched on the pros and cons of social media, women’s rights and issues affecting teenagers. McCullough was asked whether she thinks that affordable health care for all U.S. citizens is a right or a privilege. McCullough said it is a privilege.
Verg, wearing a sparkly black dress, stood alongside McCullough and Gould. When asked if she considers herself a feminist, McCullough said she doesn’t like to use the word.”I don’t want to call myself a feminist,” she said. “Women, we are just as equal as men, especially in the workplace.” Verg on the other hand drew praise from fans when she was asked if she considers herself a feminist. She responded,“ “Feminism is striving for equality and I do consider myself a feminist. I think it’s a misconception when people believe that feminism is women being better than men. But it’s really not. It’s a fight for equality. And we need to realize that if we want a stable society, a better future for every single individual, we need to be equal. And that’s why I advocate for education for women, because women are still held back in places of the world. They still don’t have that right to their independence, that right to their equality, all because of education. And once we do take that step, I believe that an equal world will be a better world.”
Verg told The Associated Press days ahead of the competition, which until 2015 was owned by President Donald Trump, that she and her parents immigrated from India to the U.S. with only $500 in their pockets when she was four years old. Her first winter she did not have a winter coat and the family struggled to adjust. “I want to show Americans that the definition of what it means to be American is changing,” Verg said. “It’s not just one face. There are many different people who are Americans, and I feel like Asian-Americans often-times are left out of the conversation.”( Agencies)
At Rutgers, Chhavi is a Marketing Assistant Director at the Rutgers University Programming Association , an organization that plans, markets, and executes up to 200 events for the campus community, and is a member of Women BUILD, a leadership program designed for women undergraduates at Rutgers Business School.[4]?
In 2015, Chhavi was 4th-runner-up for the Miss Teen New Jersey Pageant. It was not until 2017 that Chhavi earned the crown for Miss New Jersey. The primary cause that Verg advocates for is women’s’ education and empowerment.
Verg is a trained Bharatanatyam dancer and performed her Arangetram after 12 years of training.[4] She is fluent in multiple languages; English, Hindi, Gujarati, Spanish, and Mandarin.
Verg has a passion for health and fitness and is an ISSA certified personal trainer. Recently, she started her own vegan/vegetarian health and fitness company and advocates for a healthy lifestyle. Fifty-one women representing each state and the nation’s capital participated in the decades-old competition. The beauty pageant this year included five women who immigrated to the U.S. at a young age and now as citizens hoped to represent the nation on a global stage. These included Verg and the women representing Florida, North Dakota, Hawaii and Connecticut. The top five finalists where asked different questions that touched on the pros and cons of social media, women’s rights and issues affecting teenagers. McCullough was asked whether she thinks that affordable health care for all U.S. citizens is a right or a privilege. McCullough said it is a privilege.
Verg, wearing a sparkly black dress, stood alongside McCullough and Gould. When asked if she considers herself a feminist, McCullough said she doesn’t like to use the word.”I don’t want to call myself a feminist,” she said. “Women, we are just as equal as men, especially in the workplace.” Verg on the other hand drew praise from fans when she was asked if she considers herself a feminist. She responded,“ “Feminism is striving for equality and I do consider myself a feminist. I think it’s a misconception when people believe that feminism is women being better than men. But it’s really not. It’s a fight for equality. And we need to realize that if we want a stable society, a better future for every single individual, we need to be equal. And that’s why I advocate for education for women, because women are still held back in places of the world. They still don’t have that right to their independence, that right to their equality, all because of education. And once we do take that step, I believe that an equal world will be a better world.”
Verg told The Associated Press days ahead of the competition, which until 2015 was owned by President Donald Trump, that she and her parents immigrated from India to the U.S. with only $500 in their pockets when she was four years old. Her first winter she did not have a winter coat and the family struggled to adjust. “I want to show Americans that the definition of what it means to be American is changing,” Verg said. “It’s not just one face. There are many different people who are Americans, and I feel like Asian-Americans often-times are left out of the conversation.”( Agencies)
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