Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the star of the Oscar-nominated movie Roma, Yalitza Aparicio, met in Washington DC on Wednesday to discuss domestic workers’ rights.
In July 2019, Ocasio-Cortez co-sponsored the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, which would amend federal labor laws to include domestic workers.
“My mom was a domestic worker – she cleaned houses to support our family,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Facebook and Twitter last summer.
Aparicio earned an Oscar nomination for her depiction of a domestic worker in the Mexican film Roma.