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Read Replies (3) | Respond to AOC is an elite millionaire, raised in a privileged wealthy family.Catholic family in the New York City borough of the Bronx on October 13, 1989, the daughter of Blanca Ocasio-Cortez (née Cortez) and Sergio Ocasio-Roman. [9] She has a younger brother named Gabriel. [10] Her father was born in the Bronx to a Puerto Rican family and became an architect ; her mother was born in Puerto Rico. [11] [12] [13] Ocasio-Cortez lived with her family in an apartment in the Bronx neighborhood of Parkchester [12] until she was five, when the family moved to a house in suburban Yorktown Heights . [12] [14] Yorktown High School , graduating in 2007. [15] In high school and college, Ocasio-Cortez went by the name of "Sandy Ocasio". [16] She came in second in the microbiology category of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in 2007 with a research project on the effect of antioxidants on the lifespan of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans . [17] [18] In a show of appreciation for her efforts, the MIT Lincoln Laboratory named a small asteroid after her: 23238 Ocasio-Cortez . [19] [20] 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 . [21] 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. [30] [31 ] She later launched Brook Avenue Press, a now-defunct publishing firm for books that portrayed the Bronx in a positive light. [32] [33] Ocasio-Cortez also worked for the nonprofit National Hispanic Institute . [21] [34] [35] en.wikipedia.org
