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Read Replies (2) | Respond to She was involved in political things long before Sanders. She interned in Ted Kennedy's office. I didn't know that she has a small asteroid named after her as the result of winning second place in an Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in high school. From wiki's brief biography of her:the Bronx , New York City , on October 13, 1989, to Blanca Ocasio-Cortez ( née Cortez) and Sergio Ocasio in a Catholic family. [14] [15] Her father was an architect born in the Bronx to a Puerto Rican family, while her mother is a native Puerto Rican. [16] [17] Until age five, Ocasio-Cortez lived with her family in an apartment in the neighborhood of Parkchester . [17] The family then moved to a house in Yorktown Heights , a suburb in Westchester County . [17] Growing up, Ocasio-Cortez regularly visited her extended family in the Bronx. [18] Yorktown High School , graduating in 2007, [19] where she won second prize in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with a microbiology research project on the effect of antioxidants on C. elegans ' lifespan. [20] As a result, the International Astronomical Union named a small asteroid after her: 23238 Ocasio-Cortez . [21] [22] 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 . [23] In 2008, while Ocasio-Cortez was a sophomore at Boston University, her father died of lung cancer. [24] [25] During college, she was an intern in the immigration office of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy . [26] "I was the only Spanish speaker, and as a result, as basically a kid — a 19-, 20-year-old kid — whenever a frantic call would come into the office because someone is looking for their husband because they have been snatched off the street by ICE, I was the one that had to pick up that phone," Ocasio-Cortez said. "I was the one that had to help that person navigate that system." [26] cum laude from Boston University's College of Arts and Sciences in 2011, majoring in international relations and economics. [23] [27] [28] intestate in 2008, [29] 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". [30] en.wikipedia.org
