New Yorker Kira Kazantsev crowned Miss America 2015

Meet Kira Kazantsev: Miss America 2015, trilingual, triple major & Notre Dame Law candidate. An inspiring success story of determination & diversity.

Kira Kazantsev, is the third consecutive New Yorker crowned Miss America 2015. She has always been an overachiever. The 23-year-old speaks three languages (Russian, Spanish and English), was a triple major at Hofstra University (political science, global studies and geography), was accepted to Notre Dame Law School and even worked the princess circuit in high school. She is the daughter of Russian immigrants, and was raised by her oncologist father. Kira also ran a now defunct food blog 'Confessions of a Fat Soul', and was on the honour roll at her college. Kira surely is an all rounder.