Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York confirmed to Insider Thursday that she’s engaged to her longtime partner, Riley Roberts.
“Yep! It’s true,” Ocasio-Cortez told Insider of a tweetreporting that she and Roberts were engaged.
She added in a message to Insider that they got engaged in Puerto Rico last month and were “taking some space to savor” their engagement before beginning the wedding planning process.
“We got engaged last month in my family’s hometown in Puerto Rico,” she tweeted. “No future details yet, we’re taking some space to savor this time before diving into planning.”…
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Ocasio-Cortez, 32, met Roberts, a marketing professional, when the two were undergraduate students at Boston University. They’ve dated for several years.
Roberts has largely stayed out of the spotlight but was featured in a 2018 documentary, “Knock Down the House,” about Ocasio-Cortez’s primary campaign. The documentary’s filmmaker, Rachel Lears, told Insider in 2019 that Roberts played a key role in supporting his partner’s political career.
“Everything from the emotional to the strategic to the practical, he has been a really important partner to her,” she said…