Born: February 3, 1974
Birthplace: Cincinnati, Ohio
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius
Ayanna Soyini Pressley is an American
politician who has been the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 7th
congressional district since 2019.
This district includes the northern three-quarters
of Boston, most of Cambridge, parts of Milton, and all of Chelsea, Everett,
Randolph, and Somerville.
Before serving in the United States
House of Representatives, Pressley served as an at-large member of the Boston
City Council from 2010 through 2019.
She was elected to the United States
House of Representatives in 2018 after she defeated the ten-term incumbent Mike
Capuano in the Democratic primary election for Massachusetts' 7th congressional
district and ran unopposed in the general election.
Pressley was the first Black woman
elected to the Boston City Council and the first Black woman elected to
Congress from Massachusetts.
Pressley is a member of "The
Squad,” a group of left-wing progressive congress members.