Feminist baby girl or gender-neutral names for Women’s History Month will keep the fight alive all lifelong.
Powerhouse Puerto Rican Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a political activist from the Bronx in New York, has been making history for years. She was the youngest woman ever elected to Congress at the age of 29, and soon after, in 2019, she entered the US House of Representatives for New York’s 14th district. She is known for her forward-thinking, outspoken politics, and these ideals led her to her victory over the 10-term incumbent.
She earned her Bachelors in Physics and her Masters and PhD in engineering from Stanford. But these feats are not her only claims to fame; she was Johnson Space Center’s first Hispanic director.A Bronx native and Puerto Rican history-maker, Sonia Sotomayor, was the first Hispanic American to become a member of the Supreme Court.
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