BURLINGTON, VT - A Burlington Indian-American resident was crowned Miss Vermont 2014 at the first of the Miss America 2015 state beauty pageants, held on Aprl 26. Lucy Marion Edwards, 19, is a sophomore in neuroscience at the University of Vermont, Edwards’ platform is the B+ Foundation, children helping children fight cancer. She said she plans to follow in the footsteps of Miss America 2014 Nina Davuluri,
and continue to break ground. “Nina has been an amazing role model for me,” she told beautypageantnews.com. “I’m also studying neuroscience and want to be a physician. So, to have someone like that to look up to, and to know that girls like me can go up there and win is really inspirational.”