Congratulations, AOC! Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is engaged to longtime boyfriend Riley Roberts.
from. “We got engaged last month in my family’s hometown in Puerto Rico,” Ocasio-Cortez told the publication via Twitter DM, adding, “No future details yet, we’re taking some space to savor this time before diving into planning.
” The congresswoman met Roberts, who works as a web developer and has been described as an “easygoing redhead,” when the two were undergrads at Boston University. True to form, they met not at a rowdy keg party but at a weekly Friday-afternoon conversation hosted by the dean.magazine’s biography of Ocasio-Cortez, published in February, explores the bond between her and Roberts in greater depth. Writer Josh Gondelman opined in an essay that Roberts, about whose personal life not much is widely known, “doesn’t seem focus-grouped or media-trained for state dinners and press conferences. We know he’s supportive and encouraging in private.” Personally, I’m a huge fan of partners of powerful female politicians standing quietly and helpfully alongside them—and we’ll all be looking forward to further details of the wedding, whenever they might arrive.