BIOGRAPHY

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (born October 13, 1989) (AOC) aka Sandy Ocasio is an American politician and activist. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s net worth is $29 million As of 2022. She acclaimed fame as the U.S. representative for New York’s 14th congressional district in 2019. She is the youngest woman to become a member of the United States of Congress and has accumulated a net worth of about $29 million during her political career.

She is an active member of the Democratic Socialists of America. She keeps working for many social causes and has promoted workplace democracy, Medicare for all, Employment opportunities, free education system, a Green New Deal, and the abolition of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the upliftment of society.

EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION

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 She has a younger brother named Gabriel

After high school, Alexandria attended Boston University and graduated with degrees in Economics and International Relations (and tens of thousands of dollars in student loans). During this period she also had the opportunity to intern in the office of the late Senator Ted Kennedy. Her role in Senator Kennedy’s office provided a firsthand view of the heartbreak families endured after being separated by ICE. These experiences led the Congresswoman to organize Latinx youth in The Bronx and across the United States, eventually, she began work as an Educational Director with the National Hispanic Institute, a role in which she helped Americans, DREAMers, and undocumented youth in community leadership and college readiness.

Following the financial crisis of 2008, tragedy struck when her father passed away suddenly from cancer. The medical bills and other growing expenses placed their home at risk of foreclosure. Alexandria pulled extra shifts to work as a waitress and bartender to support her family, deepening her commitment to issues impacting working-class people.

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. She later launched Brook Avenue Press, a now-defunct publishing firm for books that portrayed the Bronx in a positive light. Ocasio-Cortez also worked for the nonprofit National Hispanic Institute.

Personal life

After the death of Ocasio-Cortez’s father in 2008, her mother and grandmother moved to Florida due to financial hardship. She still has family in Puerto Rico, where her grandfather was living in a nursing home before he died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Ocasio-Cortez said that “to be Puerto Rican is to be the descendant of … African Moors and slaves, Taino Indians, Spanish colonizers, Jewish refugees, and likely others. We are all of these things and something else all at once—we are Boricua.”

Ocasio-Cortez is a Catholic. She discussed her faith and its impact on her life and her campaign for criminal justice reform in an article she wrote for America, the magazine of the Jesuit order in the United States. At a December 2018 Hanukkah celebration in New York, she said she has some Sephardic Jewish ancestry

During the 2018 election campaign, Ocasio-Cortez resided in Parkchester, Bronx, with her partner, web developer Riley Roberts. They got engaged in April 2022 in Puerto Rico.

OpenSecrets, analyzing financial disclosure forms, ranked Ocasio-Cortez as one of the least wealthy members of the 116th Congress, with a maximum net worth of $30,000.

In May 2021, Ocasio-Cortez said that she has been in psychotherapy to cope with the “extraordinarily traumatizing” 2021 United States Capitol attack. She said she “did not know if [she] was going to make it to the end of that day alive”.