Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an American politician. Actually, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an American Democratic socialist. She has fame as the youngest woman to be elected to the house. Since joining the parliament house as the youngest member of the 116th Congress, she has supported and put forth different important issues.
Early life
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was born on 13th October, in the year 1989, in Bronx, New York, United States of America. This makes her 31 years old as of 2021. Her father’s name is Sergio Ocasio-Roman. Her mother is Blanca Ocasio-Cortez. She has a sister Gabriel Ocasio-Cortez. They are of Puerto Rican descent. Likewise, she holds an American nationality and follows Christianity as her religion. According to astrology, she has Libra as her zodiac sign. Further, she belongs to the Caucasian ethnicity.
Caption: Childhood photo of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez with her father (Source: Dagbladet)
Talking about her academic journey, she completed her schooling at Yorktown High School, New York. Later, she enrolled in Boston University. She has a bachelor’s degree in Economics and international relations. Moreover, this brilliant student finished second place in Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in 2007.
Professional life
After completing her formal education, she decided to join politics. It was a subject of interest for her. Before it, she also worked for Senator Ted Kennedy’s office. There, she mainly focused on immigration issues. Moreover, she even did some odd jobs during the course as low-wage restaurant jobs to help her during the financial crisis.
Especially, she came into the limelight after defeating 10-term Congressman Joe Crawley, in New York’s 14th congressional district in the state’s Democratic primary. This event was called a “titanic upset” by the media. Further, she also won in the general election. This made her youngest woman ever elected to Congress. Surely, this event was the highlight of her career to date.
Caption: Alexandria Ocasio Cortez addressing to the public (Source: Instagram)
Alexandria has also worked previously for Bernie Sanders during the 2016 US Presidential Election. Being a member of the parliament house, she has mainly focused on different important issues. They are like; high taxes on the rich, universal health care, a new green deal, and a re-evaluation of US foreign policy, etc. Apart from her political career, she is also a founder of Brook Avenue Press. It’s a children’s book publisher.
Net worth and Achievement
Alexandria today lives a comfortable life after overcoming a big financial crisis. She mainly earns from her service in governments. The total net worth is about $ 1 million US Dollars.
Apart from her outstanding work and service in politics, she has also been acknowledged with different titles. Interestingly, she has an asteroid named 23238 Ocasio-Cortez named under her name by MIT Lincoln Laboratory. The acknowledgment is for coming 2nd position in Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in 2007. In 2017, Ernesto Nieto name her National Hispanic Institute Person of the Year. Likewise, she also received Adelle Foley Award in 2019. BBC has also named her in 2019 BBC 100 Women.
Personal life
Alexandria lives a very busy life helping and addressing peoples’ problems. She might be dating Riley Roberts currently. This young politician is straight regarding gender choices. However, she has spoken for in the support of LGBTQ community issues. Further, she has not been involved in any kind of controversies to date.
Caption: Alexandria Ocasio Cortez lifestyle (Source: Us Weekly)
Body measurement and Social media
Alexandria also has a beautiful face and gorgeous appearance. The talented politician is 5 feet and 5 inches tall. She weighs 59 kg. Similarly, talking about the overall body measurement, she has a figure of 36-25-36 inches. The color of her hair is dark brown and she has dark brown colored eyes as well.
The politician is also active in social media as well via different platforms. She has a Facebook account under her name with 1.8 million followers. Likewise, her Instagram account @aoc has amassed 8.7 million followers and her official Twitter account @RepAOC has 683.6k followers. Let’s not forget her YouTube channel under her name which has 78.2k subscribers.
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