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Claudia De la Cruz (born 1980/1981) is an American left-wing activist who was the Party for Socialism and Liberation nominee for president of the United States in the 2024 election.
De la Cruz was born in the South Bronx to immigrants from the Dominican Republic. She attended Theodore Roosevelt High School and graduated in 1997. She says a visit to Cuba at age 17 inspired her opposition to imperialism.
In 2001, De la Cruz earned a bachelor’s degree in forensic psychology from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. In 2007, she earned a master’s degree in social work from Columbia University and a master’s degree in divinity from Union Theological Seminary.
At the City University of New York, De la Cruz coordinated a teen group to study resistance movements and march against the 2003 Iraq War. In 2004, she founded Da Urban Butterflies (DUB), a Washington Heights-based leadership group for teens and young women of Dominican and Puerto Rican descent. The “Butterflies” name honored the three Dominican Mirabal sisters who were killed in November 1960 for opposing the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo.
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