Washington Heights Beauty Prepares for Miss New York USA Pageant | DNAinfo
By Serena Solomon While some potential beauty queens take hours preparing for competition, Merlix Ventura took years. A self-confessed brat, Ventura’s mom banned her from beauty pageants as a 5-year-old for being too demanding. But now, 16 years later, the more composed 21-year-old’s dream is close to coming true. Ventura will be competing in the [...]
Claudia De La Cruz’s outreach work helps teens and young women soar like ‘Urban Butterflies’ | NY Daily News
BY Clem Richardson When Claudia De la Cruz explains how she drew on the 2003 Iraq War, the 1960 slaughter of four sisters in the Dominican Republic and urban adolescent angst to create an award-winning organization for teenager girls of Dominican and Puerto Rican descent, it makes sense. De la Cruz, 30, is founder and [...]
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