Naziah Ali held the title of Miss India Fiji 2009. She represented Fiji to the Miss India Worldwide Pageant in Durban

Durban

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, in February 2009. She is the first Indo Fijian from Fiji to represent Fiji to the pageant. Ali is of both Indian and Fijian origin. Her father is a third generation Indian and her mum a native Fijian from the province of Ba

Ba Province

Ba is a province of Fiji, occupying the north-western sector of Viti Levu, Fiji's largest island. It is one of fourteen Provinces in the nation of Fiji, and one of eight based in Viti Levu. It is Fiji's most populous Province, with a population of 231,760 - more than a quarter of the nation's...

Ali works as the Communications and Publication Coordinator for the Advancing Gender Equality in Political Governance in the Pacific (GEPG) Programme for the United Nations

United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...

 Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM

UNIFEM

The United Nations Development Fund for Women, commonly known as UNIFEM was established in December 1976 originally as the Voluntary Fund for the United Nations Decade for Women in the International Women's Year. Its first director was Dr. Margaret Snyder, Ph.D...

).

She worked for the Pacific Islands Geoscience Commission (SOPAC

South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission

The Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission is an inter-governmental regional organisation dedicated to providing services to promote sustainable development in the countries it serves.-Members:...

) from 2007 to 2008 as the Media and Communications Consultant. Prior to that Ali worked at a television journalist for Fiji Television

Fiji Television

Fiji Television Limited is Fiji's television network. It was founded on 15 June 1994 as the first permanent television broadcasting network in the country, although television had previously been introduced temporarily in October 1991 to broadcast the Rugby World Cup as well as Cricket World Cup....

 Limited. She worked as a journalism and theatre arts

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 tutor at the University of the South

Sewanee, The University of the South

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 Pacific after graduating in 2004 with her Bachelor of Arts Degree

Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...

in Journalism and Literature and Language from the same university.