She was born in the Bronx, the poorest of the five boroughs of New York, in a working-class family. Her mother is Puerto Rican, her father died. Out of nowhere she won last year, completely unexpectedly, the widow to a seat in the House of her partijgenoot and established value, Joe Crowley. The now 29-year-old Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, in short the AOC, kicked it in november until the youngest Congressman ever in the US. And the border of her popularity is still not reached. She now has 4.2 million followers on social media: 2.4 million on Twitter and 1.8 million on Instagram.
She calls herself a “socialist Democrat”, just like Bernie Sanders, for whom she campaigned when he was presidential candidate. So rolled activist Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez in politics. Not easy for a daughter of a cleaning lady and a bus driver from the Bronx. But her parents did everything for their daughter to succeed in life. AOC could, as economy and international relations to study at the renowned Boston University.