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Miss Puerto Rico of the National Puerto Rican Day Parade Crystal Rosa is a proud boricua
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Crystal Rosa had her big day Sunday as the queen of this year's National Puerto Rican Day Parade, which she considers as “a day of celebration of the triumphs of the Puerto Rican community, our progress in this country and a symbol of survival and strength.”
Crystal, 25, is a college graduate. She has a bachelor’s degree in communications and hopes to get back into the broadcasting industry. She hopes to work as an on-air personality and wants to pursue acting too.
For her, being Miss Puerto Rico is also a role she takes seriously. It's a role she plans to fulfill for the rest of her term as queen.
“Being queen of The National Puerto Rican Parade means one is an ambassador of Puerto Rico and its people,” she says. “With the title, comes a huge responsibility to the Puerto Rican community. It means representing Puerto Rico in the highest regard wherever I go.”
She wants to represent the Puerto Rican community with dignity and respect.
“I hope to be a positive role model to our youth and stress the importance of learning about our culture and heritage,” she says. “It is important to love and value Puerto Rico, but more important to love and value the island with knowledge.”
As a little girl, she remembers watching the parade on television every year “religiously” when she was not able to attend the annual cultural bash on Fifth Avenue.
Being Puerto Rican, she says, is to be part of a community that symbolizes strength, survival and progress.
“The best part about being Miss Puerto Rico NPRP 2009 has been spending time with my people who are so beautiful, warm and dynamic,” she says. “It has been a beautiful experience to spend time with people who share the same patriotic love I do.”
The most challenging part has been not getting enough sleep though things are calming down a bit since the big parade day. She says she enjoyed meeting everyone from the artists, to the politicians to the people from the community. “Everybody!”
She looks forward to meeting new people throughout the year.
Crystal says she’s a strong, determined, family and goal-oriented woman. She loves to read, work out and dance salsa.
Her long-term goal is to have a career established in the television industry as an anchor and help make positive changes in my community.
She’s an advocate for Puerto Ricans to retain their cultural roots.
“I would like to stress to our Puerto Rican community the importance of learning and speaking our Spanish language,” she says. “Our language is a part of who we are.”
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