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→Personal life: Regarding the last edit: I agree it was a bad phrasing. Alexandria, as she herself said, has no recent Sephardic ancestry, neither culturally, religiously or ethnically. The current version puts her on the same level as those with recent ancestry or a ethnically crypto-Jewish background. She is not more Jewish than other Puerto Ricans. All she has done is some regular geneology and this should be emphasized
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== Personal life ==
== Personal life ==
Ocasio-Cortez has family in Puerto Rico, where her grandfather lived in a nursing home<ref name=":11" /> before dying in the aftermath of [[Hurricane Maria]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/My-Grandfather-Died-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-Slams-Trump-Puerto-Rico-PR-Tweet-493285661.html|title='My Grandfather Died': Ocasio-Cortez Slams Trump's PR Denial|work=NBC New York|access-date=September 29, 2018|language=en}}</ref> After Ocasio-Cortez's father's death in 2008, her mother and grandmother relocated to Florida due to financial hardship.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":12" /> She described her [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] faith and its impact on her life and her campaign for [[Criminal justice reform in the United States|criminal justice reform]] in an article in ''[[America (magazine)|America]]'', the magazine of the [[Jesuit]] order in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |first=Alexandria|last=Ocasio-Cortez|title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her Catholic faith and the urgency of a criminal justice reform|url=https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2018/06/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-her-catholic-faith-and-urgency-criminal |date=June 27, 2018|accessdate=August 31, 2018|website=[[America (magazine)|America]]|quote=Innocence, in its mercy, partly excuses us from having to fully reckon with the spiritual gifts of forgiveness, grace and redemption at the heart of the [[Catechism of the Catholic Church|Catechism]]: I believe in the forgiveness of sins.}}</ref> At a 2018 [[Hanukkah]] party held by activist group [[Jews for Racial & Economic Justice]], Ocasio-Cortez also announced that her family has [[Sephardic]] [[Jewish]] ancestry, but did not practice the faith.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/10/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-reveals-jewish-ancestry-hanukkah-celebration |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reveals Jewish ancestry at Hanukkah celebration |publisher=The Washington Post |date= |accessdate=December 10, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/amp/us-news/.premium-ocasio-cortez-claims-jewish-heritage-at-ny-event-my-family-were-sephardic-jews-1.6727455|title=Ocasio-Cortez Shares Jewish Heritage at NY Event: 'My Family Were Sephardic Jews'|work=[[Haaretz]]|access-date=December 9, 2018|language=en}}</ref>
Ocasio-Cortez has family in Puerto Rico, where her grandfather lived in a nursing home<ref name=":11" /> before dying in the aftermath of [[Hurricane Maria]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/My-Grandfather-Died-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-Slams-Trump-Puerto-Rico-PR-Tweet-493285661.html|title='My Grandfather Died': Ocasio-Cortez Slams Trump's PR Denial|work=NBC New York|access-date=September 29, 2018|language=en}}</ref> After Ocasio-Cortez's father's death in 2008, her mother and grandmother relocated to Florida due to financial hardship.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":12" /> She described her [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] faith and its impact on her life and her campaign for [[Criminal justice reform in the United States|criminal justice reform]] in an article in ''[[America (magazine)|America]]'', the magazine of the [[Jesuit]] order in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |first=Alexandria|last=Ocasio-Cortez|title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her Catholic faith and the urgency of a criminal justice reform|url=https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2018/06/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-her-catholic-faith-and-urgency-criminal |date=June 27, 2018|accessdate=August 31, 2018|website=[[America (magazine)|America]]|quote=Innocence, in its mercy, partly excuses us from having to fully reckon with the spiritual gifts of forgiveness, grace and redemption at the heart of the [[Catechism of the Catholic Church|Catechism]]: I believe in the forgiveness of sins.}}</ref> At a 2018 [[Hanukkah]] party held by activist group [[Jews for Racial & Economic Justice]], Ocasio-Cortez also announced that her family has extremely remote [[Sephardic]] [[Jewish]] ancestry, but did not practice the faith.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/10/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-reveals-jewish-ancestry-hanukkah-celebration |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reveals Jewish ancestry at Hanukkah celebration |publisher=The Washington Post |date= |accessdate=December 10, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/amp/us-news/.premium-ocasio-cortez-claims-jewish-heritage-at-ny-event-my-family-were-sephardic-jews-1.6727455|title=Ocasio-Cortez Shares Jewish Heritage at NY Event: 'My Family Were Sephardic Jews'|work=[[Haaretz]]|access-date=December 9, 2018|language=en}}</ref>


During the 2018 election campaign, Ocasio-Cortez resided in [[Parkchester, Bronx]].<ref name=":13">{{Cite news|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-cant-afford-to-rent-an-apartment-in-dc.html|title=Youngest woman elected to Congress Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can't afford an apartment in D.C.|last=Hess|first=Abigail|date=November 8, 2018|work=CNBC|access-date=November 17, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-interview-vogue-november-2018-issue|title=How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Other Progressives Are Defining the Midterms|first=Irina|last=Aleksander|work=Vogue|date=October 15, 2018|accessdate=November 17, 2018}}</ref>
During the 2018 election campaign, Ocasio-Cortez resided in [[Parkchester, Bronx]].<ref name=":13">{{Cite news|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-cant-afford-to-rent-an-apartment-in-dc.html|title=Youngest woman elected to Congress Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can't afford an apartment in D.C.|last=Hess|first=Abigail|date=November 8, 2018|work=CNBC|access-date=November 17, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-interview-vogue-november-2018-issue|title=How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Other Progressives Are Defining the Midterms|first=Irina|last=Aleksander|work=Vogue|date=October 15, 2018|accessdate=November 17, 2018}}</ref>

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez standing
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 14th district
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 3, 2019
Preceded byJoe Crowley
Personal details
Born (1989-10-13) October 13, 1989 (age 35)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
EducationBoston University (BA)
WebsiteHouse website
Campaign website

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez[pron 1] (born October 13, 1989) is an American politician and educator.[2][3] A member of the Democratic Party, she is the U.S. Representative for New York's 14th congressional district, elected on November 6, 2018.

On June 26, 2018, Ocasio-Cortez won the Democratic Party's primary election 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, in the biggest upset victory in the 2018 midterm election primaries.[9] Ocasio-Cortez is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.[10]

Before running for Congress, Ocasio-Cortez was an educator and community organizer working in the Bronx, serving as Educational Director of the 2017 Northeast Collegiate World Series for the National Hispanic Institute. At the age of 29, she is the youngest woman to serve in Congress in the history of the United States.[11]

Early life and education

Ocasio-Cortez was born in the Bronx, New York City, on October 13, 1989, to Blanca Ocasio-Cortez (née Cortez) and Sergio Ocasio.[12] Her father, an architect of Puerto Rican descent, was born in the Bronx, while her mother was born in Puerto Rico.[13][14] Until age five, Ocasio-Cortez lived with her family in an apartment in the neighborhood of Parkchester.[14] The family then moved to a house in Yorktown Heights, a suburb in Westchester County.[14] Growing up, Ocasio-Cortez regularly visited her extended family in the Bronx.[15]

Ocasio-Cortez attended Yorktown High School, graduating in 2007,[16] where she won second prize in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with a microbiology research project on the effect of antioxidants on C. elegans' lifespan.[17] As a result, the International Astronomical Union named a small asteroid after her: 23238 Ocasio-Cortez.[18][19] In high school, she took part in the National Hispanic Institute's Lorenzo de Zavala (LDZ) Youth Legislative Session. She later became the LDZ Secretary of State while she attended Boston University. Ocasio-Cortez had a John F. Lopez Fellowship.[20] In 2008, while Ocasio-Cortez was a sophomore at Boston University, her father died of lung cancer.[21][22] During college, she was an intern in the immigration office of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy.[23] She graduated cum laude from Boston University's College of Arts and Sciences in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in international relations and a minor in economics.[20][24][25]

Ocasio-Cortez has described her background as working-class, and relates many of her political positions to it. When her father died intestate in 2008,[26] she became involved in a long probate battle to settle his estate. She has said that the experience helped her learn "firsthand 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".[27]

Early career

After college, Ocasio-Cortez moved back to the Bronx, while she worked as a bartender in Manhattan and as a waitress in a taqueria. Her mother, meanwhile, cleaned houses and drove school buses. After her father's death, Ocasio-Cortez and her mother struggled to fight foreclosure of their home.[28][29] She launched Brook Avenue Press, a publishing firm for books that portray the Bronx in a positive light.[30] She worked as lead educational strategist at GAGEis, Inc.[31] Ocasio-Cortez was also an educator at the nonprofit National Hispanic Institute.[32] She served as its Educational Director of the 2017 Northeast Collegiate World Series, where she participated in a panel on Latino leadership.[20]

In the 2016 primary, Ocasio-Cortez worked as an organizer for Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign.[33] 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 Flint water crisis and the Dakota Access Pipeline.[34] In an interview she recalled her visit to Standing Rock as a tipping point, saying that before that, she had felt that the only way to effectively run for office was if you had 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.[35]

U.S. House of Representatives

2018 election

Main article: United States House of Representatives elections in New York, 2018 § District 14

Ocasio-Cortez was among a slate of nationwide Justice Democrats/Brand New Congress candidacy announcements livestreamed on May 16, 2017.[36] In August 2017, she attended the Netroots Nation Conference in Atlanta, appearing on a panel with fellow candidates on "how to run a grassroots campaign that puts people above party".[37][38]

Ocasio-Cortez during an interview with Julia Cumming in December 2017.

Ocasio-Cortez was the first person since 2004 to challenge the Democratic Caucus Chair, Joe Crowley, in the Democratic primary. She faced a significant financial disadvantage, but said, "You can't really beat big money with more money. You have to beat them with a totally different game." Nearly 75% of her donations were small individual contributions, while less than one percent of Crowley's contributions were.[27] The Ocasio-Cortez campaign spent $194,000 to the Crowley campaign's $3.4 million.[39]

Ocasio-Cortez answers interview questions in July 2018

Ocasio-Cortez had not previously held elected office,[13] and her campaign video began with her saying "Women like me aren't supposed to run for office."[40]

On June 15, the candidates' only face-to-face encounter during the campaign occurred on a local political talk show, Inside City Hall. The format was a joint interview conducted by Errol Louis, which NY1 characterized as a debate.[41] On June 18, a debate in the Bronx was scheduled, but Crowley did not participate. He sent former New York City Council member Annabel Palma in his place.[42][43][44]

Ocasio-Cortez was endorsed by progressive and civil rights organizations such as MoveOn,[45] Justice Democrats,[46] Brand New Congress,[47] Black Lives Matter,[48] and Democracy for America,[33] and by gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon, who, like Ocasio-Cortez, also challenged a longtime incumbent, Andrew Cuomo, in the 2018 New York gubernatorial election.[49]

Governor Cuomo endorsed Crowley, as did both of New York's U.S. Senators, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, as well as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, 11 U.S. Representatives, 31 local elected officials, 31 trade unions, and progressive groups such as the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, the Working Families Party, NARAL Pro-Choice America and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, among others.[50] California representative Ro Khanna, like Ocasio-Cortez a Justice Democrat,[51] initially endorsed Crowley, later also endorsing Ocasio-Cortez in an unusual dual endorsement.[52]

Following her win, Ocasio-Cortez explained her campaign strategy:

I knew that if we were going to win, the way that progressives win on an unapologetic message is by expanding the electorate. That's the only way that we can win strategically. It's not by rushing to the center. It's not by trying to win spending all of our energy winning over those who have other opinions. It's by expanding the electorate, speaking to those that feel disenchanted, dejected, cynical about our politics, and letting them know that we're fighting for them.[53]

Primary election

On June 26, 2018, Ocasio-Cortez received 57.13% of the vote (15,897) to Joe Crowley's 42.5% (11,761), defeating the 10-term incumbent by almost 15 percentage points.[54] Time called her victory "the biggest upset of the 2018 elections so far";[55] CNN made a similar statement.[5] The New York Times described Crowley's loss as "a shocking primary defeat on Tuesday, the most significant loss for a Democratic incumbent in more than a decade, and one that will reverberate across the party and the country".[33] The Guardian called it "one of the biggest upsets in recent American political history".[56] Her victory was especially surprising as she was outspent 18–1.[57] Merriam-Webster reported that searches for the word "socialism" spiked 1,500% after her victory.[58] In a sign of her outsider status, as of 11 p.m. on election day Crowley had not phoned Ocasio-Cortez; she believed he did not have her phone number and stated that she did not have his. Earlier in the evening, however, Crowley, an amateur guitarist, had played a cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" at his election night watch party by way of conceding defeat, having dedicated it to Ocasio-Cortez.[59]

Bernie Sanders congratulated her, saying, "She took on the entire local Democratic establishment in her district and won a very strong victory. She demonstrated once again what progressive grassroots politics can do."[8] Noam Chomsky saw her victory as "a quite spectacular and significant event". He believes her win shows a split in the Democratic Party and he thinks that "she was right in saying that the policies she's outlined should have broad appeal to a very large segment of the population."[60]

Several commentators noted the similarities between Ocasio-Cortez's victory over Crowley and Dave Brat's 2014 victory over Eric Cantor in the Republican primary for Virginia's 7th congressional district.[61][62] Like Crowley, Cantor was a high-ranking member in his party's caucus.[63] After her primary win, Ocasio-Cortez endorsed several progressive primary challengers to Democratic incumbents nationwide,[64] leveraging her fame and spending her political capital in a manner not usually seen even in unexpected primary winners.[65]

Without campaigning for it, Ocasio-Cortez won the Reform Party primary as a write-in candidate in a neighboring congressional district, New York's 15th, with a total vote count of nine, highest among all 22 write-in candidates. She said she appreciated the show of support, but would decline the nomination.[66][67]

Media coverage

Ocasio-Cortez at the Reardon Convention Center in Kansas City on July 20, 2018.

Prior to defeating incumbent Joe Crowley in the 2018 Democratic primary, Ocasio-Cortez was given little airtime by most traditional news media outlets.[68][69] Brian Stelter wrote that progressive media outlets such as The Young Turks and The Intercept "saw the Ocasio-Cortez upset coming".[62] Margaret Sullivan said that traditional metrics of measuring a campaign's viability, like total fundraising, were contributing to a "media failure".[69] Ocasio-Cortez was barely mentioned in print-media coverage until her primary election win.[70]

After her primary win, Ocasio-Cortez quickly garnered nationwide media attention, including numerous articles and TV talk-show appearances. She appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert[71] and The View in the first few days after the primary[72] and later on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.[73]

Ocasio-Cortez also drew a great deal of media attention when she and Sanders campaigned for James Thompson in Kansas in July 2018. A rally in Wichita had to be moved from a theater with a capacity of 1,500 when far more people said they would attend. The event drew 4,000 people, with some seated on the floor. In The New Yorker Benjamin Wallace-Wells wrote that while Sanders remains "the de-facto leader of an increasingly popular left, [he is unable to] do things that do not come naturally to him, like supply hope." Wallace-Wells suggested that Ocasio-Cortez has made Sanders's task easier as he can point to her success to show that ideas "once considered to be radical are now part of the mainstream".[74]

Ocasio-Cortez received backlash after barring members of the media from attending her "listening tour" on August 8 in the Bronx and August 12 in Corona, Queens.[75][76][77]

Ocasio-Cortez has been the subject of negative press coverage from right-leaning media outlets since her Democratic primary win in June 2018.[78][79][80] Ocasio-Cortez criticized news outlets, such as Fox News and the Washington Examiner, for mocking her financial situation.[81][82] In July 2018, conservative news outlet CRTV published a fake interview that featured footage of Ocasio-Cortez from a previous interview with PBS, spliced to appear as answers to questions read by CRTV commentator Allie Stuckey.[83]

In December 2018, Ocasio-Cortez said the media's treatment of her reveals a sexist double standard. She cited the example of Paul Ryan, who was also elected to Congress at age 28 but who was treated as a genius despite his "ill-considered policies" while she has been treated with suspicion and derision.[84][85]

General election

Ocasio-Cortez canvassing in Queens during the electoral campaign, in August 2018.

Ocasio-Cortez faced Republican nominee Anthony Pappas in the November 6 general election.[86] Pappas, who lives in Astoria, is an economics professor at St. John's University. According to the New York Post, Pappas did not actively campaign. The Post wrote that "Pappas' bid was a long shot," since the 14th has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of D+29 and registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by almost six to one.[87][88][89] Ocasio-Cortez was endorsed by various politically progressive organizations and figures, including former President Barack Obama and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders.[90][91]

Crowley also remained on the ballot, as the nominee of the Working Families Party (WFP). Neither Crowley nor the party actively campaigned, with both having endorsed Ocasio-Cortez after her Democratic primary victory.[92] On July 17, former Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, who himself won reelection on a third-party line after losing the Democratic Primary in 2006, expressed hope that Crowley would actively campaign on the WFP ballot line in a column in the Wall Street Journal.[93] Dan Cantor, Executive Director of the WFP, wrote an endorsement of, and apology to, Ocasio-Cortez for the New York Daily News, and called on voters not to vote for Crowley if his name remained on the general election ballot.[94]

In August 2018, Ocasio-Cortez spoke at the Netroots Nation conference in New Orleans.[95]

Ocasio-Cortez won the election with 78% of the vote (110,318) to Pappas's 14% (17,762). Her election was part of a broader Democratic victory in the 2018 midterm elections, as the party gained control of the House by picking up at least 40 seats.[96]

After the election, Ocasio-Cortez chose Justice Democrats co-founder Saikat Chakrabarti as her chief of staff.[97]

Tenure

116th Congress

On the first day of congressional orientation, Ocasio-Cortez participated in a climate change protest outside the office of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.[98] Ocasio-Cortez backed Pelosi's bid to be Speaker of the House once the Democratic Party reclaimed the majority in 2019, under the condition that she "remains the most progressive candidate for speaker."[99]

Ocasio-Cortez enters Congress with no seniority but with a large social media presence that could increase her influence in the House. Axios has credited her with as much social media clout as her fellow freshman Democrats combined.[100] As of January 2019 she has 1.84 million Twitter followers[101] (up from 1.38 million in November 2018) and 1.3 million Instagram followers.[102]

During the orientation for new members hosted by the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter about the influence of corporate interests by sponsors such as the American Enterprise Institute and the Center for Strategic and International Studies: "Lobbyists are here. Goldman Sachs is here. Where's labor? Activists? Frontline community leaders?"[103][104][105]

Political positions

Ocasio-Cortez is a self-described democratic socialist.[106] She is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.[10] She supports progressive policies such as Medicare for All, a job guarantee,[107] tuition-free public college, ending the privatization of prisons, and enacting gun-control policies.[108]

Education

Ocasio-Cortez campaigned in favor of tuition-free universities and public schools.[109]

Environment

Ocasio-Cortez is a self-described hardliner on environmental issues, calling climate change the "single biggest national security threat" facing the United States. She advocates for the United States to transition by 2035 to an electrical grid running on 100% renewable-energy production and end the use of fossil fuels. She also calls for a Green New Deal in the United States, in which the federal government would invest in the construction of large-scale green-infrastructure projects.[110]

Ocasio-Cortez has proposed "a select committee in the House to draft a plan that fits the proposal's standards". Outlined in a draft resolution on her website, the proposal would mean "using nothing but renewable energy for electricity generation" and transitioning to renewable sources of energy "within 10 years of passing Green New Deal legislation", but does not provide details about how the US would move away from non-renewable power sources. It would also roll out a nationwide "smart" electrical grid and "mass energy-efficient building upgrades". Forty-three Democrats in the new Congress have supported this resolution, according to the Sunrise Movement, a youth-led climate organizing group.[111] Frank Pallone does not believe the committee should have legislative authority.[112]

Healthcare

Ocasio-Cortez supports transitioning to a single-payer healthcare system, on the basis that healthcare is a human right.[113][109] She says that a single government insurer should ensure that every American has insurance, while reducing costs overall.[107] On her campaign website, Ocasio-Cortez says "Almost every other developed nation in the world has universal healthcare. It's time the United States catch up to the rest of the world in ensuring all people have real healthcare coverage that doesn't break the bank."[109]

Immigration

In February 2018, Ocasio-Cortez stated that she supports defunding the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), calling it "a product of the Bush-era Patriot Act suite of legislation" and "an enforcement agency that takes on more of a paramilitary tone every single day".[114][115] In June of that year, she stated that she would "stop short of fully disbanding the agency", and would rather "create a pathway to citizenship for more immigrants through decriminalization."[116] She later clarified that this does not mean abolishing deportations.[117] She has called immigration detention centers operated by the Department of Homeland Security "black sites", citing limited public access to those locations.[118] Two days before the primary election, Ocasio-Cortez attended a protest at an ICE child-detention center in Tornillo, Texas.[119]

Impeachment of President Trump

On June 28, 2018, Ocasio-Cortez told CNN she would support the impeachment of President Trump, citing Trump's alleged violations of the Emoluments Clause and stating that "we have to hold everyone accountable and that no person is above that law."[120][121]

Arab-Israeli conflict

In May, 2018, Ocasio-Cortez criticized the Israel Defense Forces' use of deadly force[122] after Palestinian protesters participating in the 2018 Gaza border protests were killed.[123][124] In a July 2018 interview with the PBS series Firing Line, Ocasio-Cortez clarified that she is "a proponent of a two-state solution"[125] and referred to the situation in the West Bank as the "occupation of Palestine", which drew criticism from some pro-Israel groups.[126][127]

Puerto Rico

Ocasio-Cortez calls for "solidarity with Puerto Rico". She has advocated for granting Puerto Ricans further civil rights, regardless of Puerto Rico's legal classification. She also advocates for both voting rights and disaster relief. Ocasio-Cortez was critical of FEMA's response to Hurricane Maria and the federal government's unwillingness to address Puerto Rico's political status.[128] She believes the federal government should increase investment in Puerto Rico.[108]

Social issues

Ocasio-Cortez is supportive of the LGBT community, thanking its members for their role in her grassroots campaign.[129][108]

Awards and honors

The International Astronomical Union named the asteroid 23238 Ocasio-Cortez after Ocasio-Cortez when she was a senior in high school in recognition of her second-place finish in the 2007 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.[18][19] Ocasio-Cortez was named the 2017 National Hispanic Institute Person of the Year by Ernesto Nieto.[20]

Personal life

Ocasio-Cortez has family in Puerto Rico, where her grandfather lived in a nursing home[128] before dying in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.[130] After Ocasio-Cortez's father's death in 2008, her mother and grandmother relocated to Florida due to financial hardship.[13][28] She described her Catholic faith and its impact on her life and her campaign for criminal justice reform in an article in America, the magazine of the Jesuit order in the United States.[131] At a 2018 Hanukkah party held by activist group Jews for Racial & Economic Justice, Ocasio-Cortez also announced that her family has extremely remote Sephardic Jewish ancestry, but did not practice the faith.[132][133]

During the 2018 election campaign, Ocasio-Cortez resided in Parkchester, Bronx.[3][134]

Notes

  1. ^ /oʊˌkɑːsioʊ kɔːrˈtɛz/; Spanish: [oˈkasjo koɾˈtes][1]

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  130. ^ "'My Grandfather Died': Ocasio-Cortez Slams Trump's PR Denial". NBC New York. Retrieved September 29, 2018.
  131. ^ Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria (June 27, 2018). "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her Catholic faith and the urgency of a criminal justice reform". America. Retrieved August 31, 2018. Innocence, in its mercy, partly excuses us from having to fully reckon with the spiritual gifts of forgiveness, grace and redemption at the heart of the Catechism: I believe in the forgiveness of sins.
  132. ^ "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reveals Jewish ancestry at Hanukkah celebration". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 10, 2018.
  133. ^ "Ocasio-Cortez Shares Jewish Heritage at NY Event: 'My Family Were Sephardic Jews'". Haaretz. Retrieved December 9, 2018.
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U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 14th congressional district
2019–present 		Incumbent
Honorary titles
Preceded by Baby of the House
2019–present 		Incumbent
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