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发帖数: 337 | 16 The International Astronomical Union named the asteroid 23238 Ocasio-Cortez
after Ocasio-Cortez when she was a senior in high school by for her second-
place finish in the 2007 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.[
14][15] Ocasio-Cortez was named the 2017 National Hispanic Institute Person
of the Year by Ernesto Nieto.[16]
Early life and education
Ocasio-Cortez was born in the Bronx, New York City, on October 13, 1989, to
Blanca Ocasio-Cortez (née Cortez) and Sergio Ocasio.[9] Her father, an
architect, was born in the Bronx of Puerto Rican descent, while her mother
was born in Puerto Rico.[10][11] Until age five, Ocasio-Cortez lived with
her family in an apartment in the neighborhood of Parkchester.[11] The
family then moved to a house in Yorktown Heights, a suburb in Westchester
County.[11] Growing up, Ocasio-Cortez regularly visited her extended family
in the Bronx.[12]
From 2003 to 2007, Ocasio-Cortez attended Yorktown High School,[13] 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.[14
][15] 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.[16] In 2008, while Ocasio-Cortez was a sophomore
at Boston University, her father died of lung cancer.[17][18][19] During
college, she was an intern in the immigration office of U.S. Senator Ted
Kennedy.[20] She graduated cum laude from Boston University's College of
Arts and Sciences in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in economics and
international relations.[16][21][22]
Ocasio-Cortez has described her background as working-class, and relates
many of her political positions to it. When her father died intestate of
lung cancer in 2008,[23] 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."[24] 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.[25]
Early career
After college, Ocasio-Cortez moved back to the Bronx, while she worked as a
bartender in Manhattan and as a waitress in a taqueria. Her mother,
meanwhile, cleaned houses and drove school buses. After her father's death,
Ocasio-Cortez and her mother struggled to fight foreclosure of their home.[
26][27] With financial backing from Sunshine Bronx Business Incubator, she
established a publishing firm, Brook Avenue Press, which specializes in
children's literature that portrays the Bronx in a positive light.[28] She
worked as lead educational strategist at GAGEis, Inc.[29] Ocasio-Cortez was
also an educator at the nonprofit National Hispanic Institute,[30] in which
role she served as the Educational Director of the 2017 Northeast Collegiate
World Series, where she participated in a panel on Latino leadership.[16]
After finding out she had been purged from the New York voter rolls and
could not vote in the 2016 primary, Ocasio-Cortez worked as an organizer for
Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign.[31] After the general election
, she 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.[32] In an interview she recalled her visit to Standing Rock as a
tipping point, saying that before that she had felt that the only way to
effectively run for office was if you had access to wealth, social influence
, and power. But her visit to North Dakota, where she saw others "putting
their whole lives and everything that they had on the line for the
protection of their community," inspired her to begin to work for her own
community.[33]
【在 b*****t 的大作中提到】
: 在刚刚过去的中期选举中脱颖而出的史上最年轻的国会女议员柯蒂斯被誉为美国政坛的
: 新星，明年1月份，她将前往华盛顿，代表纽约第14选区在国会发声。
: 但创造历史与创造财富是两回事，最近她在接受纽约时报采访时透露，她目前还无法负
: 担华盛顿公寓的租金。
: 她在采访中说，“我的过渡时期将会非常不寻常，因为我不能马上领到工资。在我成为
: 国会成员之前的三个月我都没有工资，所以我要如何租到一间公寓？这些琐碎的事是非
: 常现实的。”
: 据房地产网站Zillow给出的数据，华盛顿的平均租金为每个月2700元。
: 今年只有29岁的柯蒂斯成长于纽约，一年前她还在联合广场旁边的一家小酒吧里打工。
: 她在推特中说，“一年前我还在酒吧工作，两周前我买了第一个沙发，不久后我有了健
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