Sujita Basnet
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May 10, 1993
Sujita Basnet | |
|---|---|
| Born | Sujita Basnet May 10, 1993 Maryland, U.S. |
| Education | North Point High School |
| Alma mater | George Washington University |
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) |
| Beauty pageant titleholder | |
| Title | Miss Universe Nepal 2021 |
| Hair color | Black |
| Eye color | Black |
| Major competition(s) | Miss Nepal USA 2011 (Winner) Miss Universe 2021 (Unplaced) |
Sujita Basnet (Nepali: सुजिता बस्नेत) (born 10 May 1993) is an American-Nepalese beauty pageant titleholder and a management consultant who participated in many beauty pageants from 2011 to 2021. She was crowned as Miss Universe Nepal 2021. She represented Nepal at Miss Universe 2021. She was also the first runner up to Miss Universe Nepal 2020. She works as a management consultant for Fortune 500 firms and hold a bachelor’s in biomedical engineering.
Sujita Basnet was born in Maryland to single mother Reena Karki and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal by her grandparents until the age of 5 while her mother was completing her studies in the United States.[1] Sujita completed her education at North Point High School in Bennsville, Maryland. After her high school education in Maryland, she moved to Washington D.C., to attend George Washington University. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in Biomedical / Medical Engineering.
Career
From January 2013 to April 2013, Sujita was a congressional intern in the office of U.S. representative Ami Bera at the United States Capitol, in Washington D.C. From May 2013 to September 2013, she served as a 2013 Peace Fellow in Dang, Nepal. From January 2014 to January 2015, she was an undergraduate research assistant at the Center for Neuroscience Research in Washington D.C. In May 2015, she joined Privatin Consulting in Baltimore, Maryland as a business analyst. In May 2016, she was promoted to the senior business analyst at Privatin Consulting. She was promoted to management consultant in May 2017, and later to senior lead consultant of Privatin Consulting in May 2018. She officially left Privatin Consulting in February 2019 and she joined Accenture Federal Services as a management consultant in April 2019.
In November 2016, she founded the Liberated Scholarship Program, to support young Nepali women from lower castes, through tertiary level education, leadership training and full-time job placement support.
