Close up portrait of smiling Young Muslim American girl.
She is one of the many faces of people showing her ethnic pride who were marching and in the crowds from the 2012 Muslim Day Parade in New York.
She is wearing the tradition white headdress / scarf call a hijab.
She is goes to the Razi school in Queens, from kindergarten to Grade 12. Children from the age of five begin the Readiness Program begun in pre-kindergarten and move toward the full curriculum of reading, language, mathematics, science, social studies, Islamic and Quranic studies.