Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
U.S. Representative for New York
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was born in October 1989 in New York City. She earned a bachelor’s degree in both international relations and economics from Boston University. While in college, she interned for U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy regarding immigration and foreign affairs and assisted with Spanish-speaking constituents.
Ocasio-Cortez launched a now-defunct publishing company, worked as a bartender, and also worked with the nonprofit National Hispanic Institute. She was an organizer for the 2016 presidential campaign of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders.
Ocasio-Cortez was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, assuming office in January 2019. When she was sworn in, she became the youngest woman to ever serve in Congress.
Ocasio-Cortez is single. She is Catholic.
In the News…
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York recently described the shift of progressives from original woke ideology in a recent interview. She said that the culture during the COVID-19 pandemic led to a “huge opening of the Overton window.”
“Woke 1.0 was crazy,“ the congresswoman said, “The doors were really open in trying to entertain any and every policy that was going to get us to a better place.”
Representative Ocasio-Cortez said, “I actually think that the discussions that we had in that time were quite fruitful. I think that when we talk about crime today, it’s fundamentally different from the way that we talked about crime and bringing crime down.”
She highlighted changes, saying that “during lockdown of course, rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today.”
Contact this Leader…
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The Honorable Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Representative for New York
250 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
