Cara Mund, an American beauty pageant titleholder, is planning to run for Congress in North Dakota as an independent. 

Born December 8, 1993, Mund was crowned Miss North Dakota in June 2017. She later won the Miss America 2018 title in Atlantic City and became the first contestant from North Dakota to win the competition.

Mund was born in Bismarck, North Dakota to DeLora Kautzmann-Mund and Doug Mund. She is a distant relative of Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for President of the United States.

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The 28-year-old is a national award-winning choreographer and dancer. 

In high school, she trained four summers with the Radio City Rockettes and was named one of their “Successful Rockette Women” in 2019.

Since the age of 14, Mund has organized an annual fundraising fashion show benefiting the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

In high school, she served as her school’s National Honor Society president, graduated as one of her class’ valedictorians, and was voted “most likely to become Miss America.”

Mund graduated with honors from Brown University in 2016 with a degree in business, entrepreneurship, and organizations. She also went to Harvard Law School. She called her law school graduation a “launching pad for what I hope to accomplish next.”

Mund served as the president of the sorority Kappa Delta.

From August to December 2016, she interned for Republican Senator John Hoeven in Washington D.C. In 2018, she was his guest at the State of the Union.

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During her reign as Miss America, Mund served as the 2018 National Goodwill Ambassador for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals and worked closely with the USO.

In 2019, the North Dakota House of Representatives passed Resolution No. 3035 to honor Mund. She was also inducted into the North Dakota Bluebook’s “Notable North Dakotans” and recognized as one of “Five Women Who Changed North Dakota’s History.”