Miss EG, Allie Curtis, is RI's New Cherry Blossom Princess

Allie Curtis, who has represented her home town as Miss East Greenwich this year, will now represent Rhode Island as the next Cherry Blossom Princess.

Curtis was named Cherry Blossom Princess on Monday and will carry the title formerly held by her predecessor, Kim Kalunian, a reporter and news broadcaster at WPRO.

Curtis finished as first runner-up in the MIss Rhode Island pageant in June.

The Cherry Blossom Princess program is for young women between 19 and 24 and is based on community involvement, education and work achievements.

Curtis will head to Washington, D.C., for the next National Cherry Blossom Festival in the spring. There, she might be chosen to be the country’s Cherry Blossom Queen. The winner is chosen at random.

Curtis, a former ABC6 News Intern, is the daughter of ABC6 Chief Political Reporter Mark Curtis and his wife, Kathi. She is a 2014 graduate of Syracuse University in Public Relations and Political Science.

Watch Kalunian talk about her experience over the past year on a recent Rhode Show appearance below: