Alexandria Ocasio Cortez Net Worth: How Rich Is AOC In 2022? (2023)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an American activist, educator, and politician with a net worth of $1.5 million. In 2018, AOC was elected as a member of the U.S Congress. However, she started serving in January 2019. She serves as the United States Representative for New York’s 14th Congressional district. The district comprises some parts of North-Central Queens and the Eastern part of the Bronx in New York.

Ocasio-Cortez became the youngest woman in American history to serve in the U.S Congress. She drew nationwide recognition on June 26, 2018, when she won the Democratic Party’s primary elections for New York’s 14^thcongressional district. She defeated Republican Anthony Pappas in the November general election and was reelected in the 2020 elections, after defeating John Cummings.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known by her initials ‘AOC’ was born on October 13, 1989. She is a seasoned activist and has an active presence on social media. In this post, we will find out more about AOC, including her career, biography, and gross net worth.

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez Profile

Early Life and Career

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) was born in New York City on October 13, 1989, to the family of Sergio Ocasio-Cortez and Blanca Ocasio-Cortez. She has a younger brother named Gabriel, who grew up with her in New York. Her father, Sergio was born to a Puerto Rican family based in the Bronx and he is an architect. He operated a small business before his demise in 2008. Her mother was born in Puerto Rico and she cleans houses for a living.

AOC lived with her family in the Bronx area of Parkchester. By the time she was five years of age, her family migrated to an apartment in the suburban neighborhood of Yorktown Heights. She attended Yorktown High School, where she was known for her intelligence and academic exploits. She came 2nd in the ‘Microbiology category’ of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in 2007.

After finishing high school, she enrolled in Boston University, where she obtained a degree in international relations and economics. In 2016, her parents sold off the family home in Yorktown, New York for $355,000. As a student, Alexandria served as an intern for United States Senator, Ted Kennedy, who assisted the family in a lengthy probate battle to settle her dad’s estate following his death in 2008. Ocasio-Cortez has her father in her second year in college and this had an effect on her. However, in 2011, she was able to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A) degree in international relations and economics.

After college, she briefly worked as a waitress and bartender to help her mother and family from getting their Yorktown house foreclosed on. After then, she launched Brook Avenue Press, a publishing firm that projected the city of Bronx in a positive light. She also worked for a non-profit organization called National Hispanic Institute.

In 2016, Alexandria worked as an organizer for Bernie Sander’s presidential campaign. She traveled across the U.S and touched places like Michigan, Flint, and the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota so as to communicate with the residents affected by the water crisis and the Dakota Access Pipeline. She was greatly influenced by the activists working in these places and harnessed the idea of being an activist.

It was at this time that she began seeing a new life in politics. She found out that politics was more easily accessible than she had thought. On a fateful day after she visited North Dakota, she received a phone call from Brand New Congress, an organization that was willing to recruit progressive candidates. She started her campaign in April 2017 before running for Congress in 2018.

Political Career

In April 2017, AOC began her political campaign while also working at a taqueria in Union Square, New York City. She became the first person since 2004 to challenge and defeat a 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley, the Democratic Caucus Chair, in the primary race.

Due to the fact that she was underfinanced in comparison to Joe Crowley, she turns to grassroots politics, where she established a solid mobilization campaign. She also made decisions not to receive donations from corporations. Although many high-profile individuals and political figures endorsed Crawley, Alexandria benefited from different endorsements from organizations like Democracy for America and MoveOn.

She earned over 57% of the vote in the primary elections, in what many media outlets regarded as the biggest upset victory in the 2018 midterm election primaries. After the victory in the primaries, she went on to face the Republican nominee, Anthony Pappas in the November general election.

Pappas didn’t actively campaign for the seat and AOC was widely endorsed by various progressive organizations and political figures, including the former U.S president, Barack Obama, and Senator Bernie Sanders. She won 78% of the total votes cast in the November 6 election, thereby helping the Democratic secure victory in the midterm elections. This victory allowed the Democrats to become the majority party in the House of Representatives.

Her victory received a lot of attention from the media. At the young age of 29, Ocasio Cortez became the youngest member of the 116^th Congress and the youngest woman in American history to serve in the U.S Congress. She continued to attract high attention throughout her first tenure in office, even on par with the 2020 presidential candidates, Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

She is also part of an informal group of progressive members of the U.S Congress known as “The Squad”, which constitutes Ayanna Pressley, Cori Bush, Ilhan Omar, Jamaal Bowman, and Rashida Tlaib. The Squad represents some of the youngest and most vibrant members of Congress.

Taking a view of her political affiliations and positions, Ocasio-Cortez is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. As an activist, she is a supporter of different reforms and policies such as the tuition-free public college and trade school, single-payer Medicare for All, guaranteed family leave, canceling outstanding student debt, privatized prisons, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a Green New Deal, and more strict gun control policies.

Also, she has been vocal about making progressive environmental reforms and also describes climate change as a great threat to the United States of America as well as the entire world in general. Her first piece of legislation, the Green New Deal advocates for a transition to an electrical grid, which runs on 100% renewable energy that will put an end to the use of fossil fuels.

At the same time, she has proposed various reforms that would impose more taxes on the wealthy to help fund the Green New Deal. In addition, she has been very vocal about granting citizens of Puerto Rico further civil rights, including disaster relief and voting rights.

She defeated John Cummings in the 2020 election and was reelected in the U.S Congress.

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez Relationship

During her election campaigns in 2018, Alexandria lived with her partner, Riley Roberts, a web developer in a house in Parkchester, Bronx.

Religion

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a Christian. She is of the Roman Catholic faith.

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez Net Worth

In April 2018, a disclosure filed by Ocasio-Cortez revealed that she had between $1,000 and $15,000 in savings, between 15,000 dollars and 50,000 dollars in checking, and as much as 50,000 dollars worth of student loan debt.

The same disclosure also showed that she earned $26,581 while working at a coffee shop and taqueria in 2017. There was no blind trust for undisclosed assets. She earned over $6,000 from her campaign as a salary. In her first year as a Congresswoman, Ocasio-Cortez earned $174,000. She also received a 3000-dollar annual living expense credit, retirement, and health/insurance benefits.

Ocasio-Cortez has a gross net worth of $1.5 million, plus investment, endorsements, salary, and savings.