Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Birth
- AOC attending Yorkton high
- Ocasio-Cortez enrolled at Boston University
- Ocasio-Cortez was born in the New York City borough of the Bronx on October 13, 1989, the daughter of Sergio Ocasio-Roman and Blanca Ocasio-Cortez (née Cortez).[10] She has a younger brother named Gabriel.[11] Her father was born in the Bronx to a Puerto Rican family and became an architect; her mother was born in Puerto Rico.[12][13][14] Ocasio-Cortez lived with her family in an apartment in the Bronx neighborhood of Parkchester[13] until she was five, when the family moved to a house in suburban Yorktown Heights.[13][15
- AOC Early Career
- Ocasio-Cortez attended Yorktown High School, graduating in 2007.[16] In high school and college, Ocasio-Cortez went by the name of Sandy Ocasio.[17] She came in second in the microbiology category of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in 2007 with a research project on the effect of antioxidants on the lifespan of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.[18][19] In a show of appreciation for her efforts, the MIT Lincoln Laboratory named a small asteroid after her: 23238 Ocasio-Cortez.[20][21] In high school, she took part in the National Hispanic Institute's Lorenzo de Zavala (LDZ)
- Ocasio-Cortez began her campaign in April 2017
- After graduating from high school, Ocasio-Cortez enrolled at Boston University. Her father died of lung cancer in 2008 during her second year,[23][24] and Ocasio-Cortez became involved in a lengthy probate battle to settle his estate. She has said that the experience helped her learn first-hand how attorneys appointed by the court to administer an estate can enrich themselves at the expense of the families struggling to make sense of the bureaucracy.[25] During college, Ocasio-Cortez served as an intern for U.S. Senator Ted K1 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in both international relations and economics
- Ocasio-Cortez received 57.13% of the vote (15,897) to Crowley's 42.5%
- After college, Ocasio-Cortez moved back to the Bronx and took a job as a bartender and waitress to help her mother—a house cleaner and school bus driver—fight foreclosure of their home.[31][32] She later launched Brook Avenue Press, a now-defunct publishing firm for books that portrayed the Bronx in a positive light.[33][34] Ocasio-Cortez also worked for the nonprofit National Hispanic Institute.[22][35][36]During the 2016 primary, Ocasio-Cortez worked as an organizer for Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign.[37] After the general election, she traveled across America by car, visiting places such as Flint, Michigan, and Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota, and speaking to people affected by the Flint water crisis and the Dakota Access Pipeline.[38] In an interview she recalled her December 2016 visit to Standing Rock as a tipping point, saying that before that, she had believed that the only way to run for office effectively was to have access to wealth, social influence, and power. But her visit to North Dakota, where she saw others putting their whole lives and everything that they had on the line for the protection of their community, inspired her to begin to work for her own community.[39] One day after she visited North Dakota, she got a phone call from Brand New Congress, which was recruiting progressive candidates (her brother had nominated her soon after Election Day 2016).[40] She has credited Jabari Brisport's unsuccessful City Council campaign with restoring her belief in electoral politics, in running as a socialist candidate, and in Democratic Socialists of America as an organization.[41]
- Ocasio-Cortez began her campaign in April 2017[5] while waiting tables and tending bar at Flats Fix, a taqueria in New York City's Union Square.[42] For 80 percent of this campaign, I operated out of a paper grocery bag hidden behind that bar, she told Bon Appétit.[43] She was the first person since 2004 to challenge Joe Crowley, the Democratic Caucus Chair, in the primary. She faced a financial disadvantage, saying, You can't really beat big money with more money. You have to beat them with a totally different game.[44][45][25] Ocasio-Cortez's campaign undertook grassroots mobilization and did not take donations from corporations.[5] Her campaign posters' designs were said to have taken inspiration from revolutionary posters and visuals from the past.[46]The candidates' only face-to-face encounter during the campaign occurred on a local political talk show, Inside City Hall, on June 15. The format was a joint interview conducted by Errol Louis, which NY1 characterized as a debate.[47] A debate in the Bronx was scheduled for June 18, but Crowley did not participate. He sent former New York City Council member Annabel Palma in his place
- Ocasio-Cortez received 57.13% of the vote (15,897) to Crowley's 42.5% (11,761), defeating the 10-term incumbent by almost 15 percentage points on June 26, 2018.[60] The result shocked many political commentators and analysts and immediately garnered nationwide attention. Many news sources, including Time, CNN, The New York Times, and The Guardian mentioned how the win completely defied their predictions and expectations.[37][61][62][3] She was outspent by a margin of 18 to 1 ($1.5 million to $83,000) but won the endorsement of some influential groups on the party's left.[63] Merriam-Webster reported that searches for the word socialism spiked 1,500% after her victory.[64] Crowley conceded defeat on election night,[65] but did not telephone Ocasio-Cortez that night to congratulate her, fueling short-lived speculation that he intended to run against her in the general election.[66]
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