Pageant Winner on Beauty, Tradition, and Fighting Tyranny

Cynthia Sun works in human rights and foreign policy to raise awareness about CCP cross-national repression and help persecuted family members escape China.

Cynthia Sun modeling for the Nov.-Dec. 2024 issue of American Essence magazine in upstate New York. Courtesy of Cynthia Sun

A beauty pageant contestant onstage, a researcher in transnational repression offstage.

Cynthia Sun, senior researcher at the Falun Dafa Information Center and Miss NTD 2023, explains on EpochTV’s “Bay Area Innovators” program how she bridges human rights advocacy, national security research, and traditional values.