To: neolib who wrote (388914 ) 11/18/2018 4:44:55 PM From: koan Read Replies (1) | Respond to Not to worry she will quickly be banished if she continues. She just doesn't know the rules. But she is smart and well educated. She is trying to do the right thing. en.wikipedia.org The Bronx , New York City , on October 13, 1989, to Blanca Ocasio-Cortez ( née Cortez) and Sergio Ocasio. [11] Her father, an architect, was born in the Bronx of Puerto Rican descent, while her mother was born in Puerto Rico . [12] [13] Until age five, Ocasio-Cortez lived with her family in an apartment in the neighborhood of Parkchester . [13] The family then moved to a house in Yorktown Heights , a suburb in Westchester County . [13] Growing up, Ocasio-Cortez regularly visited her extended family in the Bronx. [14] Yorktown High School , [15] where she won second prize in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with a research project on microbiology . As a result, the International Astronomical Union named a small asteroid after her: 23238 Ocasio-Cortez . [16] [17] 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 . [18] In 2008, while Ocasio-Cortez was a sophomore at Boston University, her father died of lung cancer. [19] [20] [21] During college, she was an intern in the immigration office of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy . [22] She graduated cum laude College of Arts and Sciences in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in economics and international relations . [18] [23] [24] intestate of lung cancer in 2008, [25] 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". [26] She credits seeing the treatment of her cousin by law enforcement, as well as her Catholic faith, for her desire to overhaul mass incarceration in the criminal-justice system. [27
