Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
\nU.S. Representative for New York<\/p>\n
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was born in October 1989 in New York City.\u00a0She earned a bachelor\u2019s 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.\n<\/p>\n
Ocasio-Cortez launched a now-defunct publishing company, worked as a bartender, and also worked with the nonprofit National Hispanic Institute.\u00a0She was an organizer for the 2016 presidential campaign of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders.\n<\/p>\n
Ocasio-Cortez was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, assuming office in January 2019.\u00a0When she was sworn in, she became the youngest woman to ever serve in Congress.\n<\/p>\n
Ocasio-Cortez is single. She is Catholic.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
In the News\u2026\n<\/p>\n
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 \u201chuge opening of the Overton window.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\u201cWoke 1.0 was crazy,\u201c the congresswoman said, \u201cThe doors were really open in trying to entertain any and every policy that was going to get us to a better place.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Representative Ocasio-Cortez said, \u201cI actually think that the discussions that we had in that time were quite fruitful. I think that when we talk about crime today, it\u2019s fundamentally different from the way that we talked about crime and bringing crime down.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
She highlighted changes, saying that \u201cduring lockdown of course, rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Contact this Leader\u2026\n<\/p>\n
Did you pray for Representative Ocasio-Cortez today?\u00a0You can let her know at:\n<\/p>\n
The Honorable Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u00a0
Representative for New York\u00a0
250 Cannon House Office Building\u00a0
Washington, DC 20515\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
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