It seems like everyone wants to know what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did for a living before she became a politician. The answer? Primarily bartending and waitressing at the restaurant, Flats Fix.
In many ways, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a typical American millennial. She was born in the U.S., but her parents were forced to migrate from Puerto Rico as a result of the island’s economic crisis. She studied at Boston University, and she is now a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for New York’s District 14th Congressional District. She is also – not unsurprisingly – a first-time politician with no prior experience in governmental affairs.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or AOC as she is popularly known, is a Democratic candidate who was just elected to the U.S. Congress for New York’s 14th district in November 2018. She has been an activist and organizer since her early 20s and has since launched a campaign to unseat Joe Crowley, the incumbent Democrat in the primary race for New York’s 14th which she won.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez worked for months to win the Democratic nomination in one of the most expensive congressional districts in America. The New Yorker’s article on her explains what her work has typically entailed, and how she has learned to adapt to different working environments. She’s used to juggling multiple jobs at once. When she’s not running for office, she runs an organization that promotes women entering into politics.
At just 32-years-old, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. She was born in the Bronx, New York, and graduated from Boston University with degrees in Economics and International Relations. For nearly a decade, she served as an educator at different schools both in Boston and New York City. This year, she won the Democratic primary for House of Representatives for New York’s 14th District against 10 other candidates.
Background
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an American politician who has risen to prominence in the 2018 American political scene. Her candidacy in the Democratic primary for New York’s 14th congressional district made her the youngest woman elected to Congress in history. Born in the Bronx borough of New York City, Ocasio-Cortez grew up in a working-class family and attended Boston University before earning degrees from both Brown University and Boston University School of Law.
She served as an organizer for Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign and was the youngest woman elected to Congress in 2018. She was raised in Boston and attended Boston Latin School before moving to Yorktown Heights, New York, where she graduated from Northview Heights Elementary School and Elmsford Virtual High School.
She also has strong ties with democratic socialism and is one of few socialists in an otherwise largely conservative Congress. Her politics are often described as “progressive.
She is the youngest woman in history to be elected to Congress. She was born in New York City, moved to Boston when she was five, and then returned to the Bronx where she graduated from Boston University in 2011. After earning her degree, she took a job working as a waitress in Manhattan while serving on the board of directors for the nonprofit organization, Brand New Congress.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was born in the Bronx in 1989 to working-class parents. She attended Boston University School of Arts where she studied theater and international relations. She is a Democratic Socialist, who ran for office in the United States House of Representatives election in New York’s 14th District.
Early Work
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a 32-year old Democratic Socialist and first-time congressional candidate from New York. She began her career as an organizer for Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign and has been active in politics since she was 17 years old.
In the summer of 2017, she graduated from Boston University with degrees in international relations and economics. The following summer she worked as an organizer on the 2018 congressional campaign for Florida Democrat Andrew Gillum.
When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was a student at Boston University, she worked as a bartender outside the university and at the Modern Hotel in downtown Boston. She joined a Students for Economic Justice group on campus and became involved with other activists during her time there.
In a recent interview, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke about her early work experience. The twenty-eight-year-old self-proclaimed ‘democratic socialist’ said that she worked as a bartender and waitress from the age of fifteen for multiple establishments around New York City. After graduating from Boston University, she managed to get an internship on Wall Street with the help of some family connections.
Early in her career, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez worked as an intern for Senator Ted Kennedy. Here, she became enamored with the way he ran his office and took note of how he allowed his staff to be creative. For many years, she continued to work in the political realm before pursuing her passion for economic justice.
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