Maria Cepero

Maria Cepero was born in 1998 in Puerto Rico and currently resides in Connecticut, US. She is a law graduate from the University of Puerto Rico. Cepero speaks Spanish, English, Portuguese, and French.^[3]

Cepero is the founder of the Flowers Fund Project, a non-profit organization that supports women through entrepreneurship and aims to change lives in the most vulnerable communities in Puerto Rico. She owns a health business that promotes healthy lifestyles through holistic physical and mental well-being practices.^[4]

On October 5, 2023, she represented Connecticut at Miss World America 2023 and competed against 45 other candidates at the Meydenbauer Theater in Bellevue, Washington, US.^[5]

On May 8, 2024, she was crowned Miss Intercontinental Puerto Rico 2024 at the Fairmont Lobby Hotel in San Juan, Carolina, Puerto Rico, becoming the fifth Puerto Rican to win Miss Intercontinental.^{[citation needed]}