Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an outspoken democratic socialist from New York, is one of the many women of color who is changing the electoral representation of the Democratic Party.

Twenty-eight-year-old community organizer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, pulled off a huge upset last night over Rep. Joe Crowley, the chair of the House Democratic caucus, in a New York primary race.

Ocasio-Cortez defeated Crowley, the fourth-most powerful Democrat in the House, was a 10-term congressman and New York political machine boss who was viewed as a possible successor to Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi.

The Associated Press called New York’s 14th District (made up of eastern Bronx and part of north-central Queens) race Tuesday night with the Ocasio-Cortez getting 58 percent of the vote to Crowley’s 42 percent.

The Bronx-born Ocasio-Cortez ran on a platform that called for housing as a human right, fighting climate change, criminal justice reform, immigration justice, abolishing ICE, a federal jobs guarantee, and Medicare-for-all.