Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: 15 facts about the politician

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made history as the youngest woman ever elected to Congress and she made a lot of people happy!

These are some facts you should know about her!

1. She was born on October 13, 1989.
2. She was born in the Bronx, New York City.
3. Her father, was also born in the Bronx, while her mother was born in Puerto Rico.
4. From 2003 to 2007, she attended Yorktown High School, where she won second prize in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with a research project on microbiology.
5. She became , later on, the LDZ Secretary of State while she attended Boston University. Ocasio-Cortez had a John F. Lopez Fellowship.
6. Unfortunately, in 2008, while she was a sophomore at Boston University, her father died of lung cancer.
7. During college, she was an intern in the immigration office of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy.
8. After college, Ocasio-Cortez moved back to the Bronx, while she worked as a bartender in Manhattan and as a waitress in a taqueria.
9. She was also an educator at the nonprofit National Hispanic Institute.
10. After finding out she had been purged from the New York voter rolls and could not vote in the 2016 primary, Ocasio-Cortez worked as an organizer for Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential campaign.
11. After the general election, she traveled across America by car, visiting places such as Flint, Michigan, and Standing Rock, and speaking to people affected by the human rights violations related to the Flint water crisis and the Dakota Access Pipeline.
12. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is a self-described democratic socialist. She supports progressive policies such as Medicare for All, a job guarantee, tuition-free public college, ending the privatization of prisons, and enacting gun-control policies.
13. On June 26, 2018, Ocasio-Cortez won the Democratic primary in New York’s 14th congressional district covering parts of the Bronx and Queens in New York City, defeating the incumbent Congressman, Democratic Caucus Chair Joe Crowley.
14. She is the member-elect of the United States House of Representatives for New York’s 14th congressional district, having won the district’s general election in November 2018.
15. She is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.