Hiam Amani Hafizuddin

Hiam Amani is an American-born beauty queen and founder of Miss Bangladesh USA. She founded Miss Bangladesh US at the age of eighteen and later became a national director for Asia's oldest and largest beauty pageant— Miss Asia Pacific International at the age of nineteen.

Pageants

Miss Bangladesh US

While in her first semester of her freshman year of college, Hafizuddin founded the Miss Bangladesh US pageant.

She was inspired by the essence of pageantry—inspiring feminine empowerment and advocating for social justice. At the time, Bangladesh not having any pageants in place for women of that background, she decided to become the pioneer of pageantry for this demographic by creating Miss Bangladesh USA which later became renamed Miss Bangladesh US.

Miss Asia Pacific International

Hiam is the official National Director of Bangladesh for Miss Asia Pacific International. She is responsible for recruiting contestants and selecting the official Bangladesh representative for the pageant.

America's Miss World 2016

In July 2016, Hiam competed in the Miss World America competition. She gained a lot of media recognition leading up to the competition for being the first woman of Bangladeshi descent to be competing in this pageant. From there she worked diligently to help reinstate Miss World Bangladesh to allow women of Bangladesh to participate in the international pageant: Miss World for the first time in seventeen years.

Hiam was featured on various international media platforms for her involvement in promoting her Beauty with a Purpose project: Unity through Diversity. Her video was featured on NBC News and NBC Asian America honoring her dedication to promote inclusivity and recognition for Asian America people.

Miss Earth United States 2017

In April 2017, Hiam was crowned Miss Champaign County and represented Champaign in the Miss Illinois Earth United States pageant.