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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Height, Weight, Age, Body Statistics Posted by Joel S. Elkins on December 3, 2020 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an American politician who is known for having served as the U.S. Representative for New York’s 14th congressional district. Jan 02, 2021 Being born on 13 October 1989, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is 31 years old as of today’s date 21st January 2021. Her height is 1.63m tall, and her weight is 50kg. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said her job is taking a toll on her body. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images) The stress of working in Congress is taking a toll on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez‘s.

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Some Lesser Known Facts About Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

• Alexandria was born in the Bronx, New York City to two working-class parents.

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Childhood Photo With Her Father

• In her biography, which has been in controversy regarding the accuracy of facts, she mentioned that her father was from the South Bronx while her mother was from Puerto Reco.

• She has also mentioned in her biography that she grew up with a deep understanding of income inequality.

• While studying at Yorktown High School, Alexandria received the second prize in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with a microbiology research project on the effect of antioxidants on C. elegans’ lifespan.

• A small asteroid, 23238 Ocasio-Cortez, has also been named after her by the International Astronomical Union.

• While Alexandria was studying at Boston University, her father died of Lung Cancer in 2008.

• During her college, she interned in the immigration office of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy.

• After graduating from Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences, she returned to The Bronx and started working as a bartender in Manhattan and as a waitress in a taqueria.

• After her father’s death, Ocasio-Cortez and her mother had to undergo financial strain, due to which, her mother had to clean houses and drive school buses.

• With the help of Sunshine Bronx Business Incubator, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez started a publishing firm, Brook Avenue Press, which, with the help of children’s literature, highlights the positive things about The Bronx.
  

• Apart from this, she also worked at GAGEis, Inc (as a lead educational strategist) and at the nonprofit National Hispanic Institute (as an educator).

• After being actively involved for Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential campaign, Ocasio-Cortez traveled across America by car, visiting places such as Flint, Michigan, and Standing Rock, and speaking to people affected by the human rights violations related to the Flint water crisis and the Dakota Access Pipeline.

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• In an interview, she credited her North Dakota visit as a tipping point; as it taught her a lesson to work hard for one’s own community, rather than waiting for financial miracles to happen in his/her life.

• In 2017, when Ocasio-Cortez challenged the Democratic Caucus Chair, Joe Crowley, she became the first person since 2004 to do so. She had faced a big financial disadvantage during the campaign; as she spent $194,000 to the Crowley campaign’s $3.4 million. In her campaigns, she used to say-
  

  You can’t really beat big money with more money. You have to beat them with a totally different game.”

• On January 3, 2019, she became the youngest member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s 14th District; after defeating Joe Crowley.

• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez loves to dance, and even on the first day of her office, she posted a dancing video of her on her Twitter account.