Upstate NY

while a Student at american University in the nation’s capital and an advocate for military veterans (her dad served in Iraq after the 9/11 attacks), Zegers was recruited to run for the State Assembly in her hometown, New York. “I lost by 13 percent, but I did it with passion and energy, so everyone was congratulating me,” she recalled. Zegers quit her job in marketing to work full time as CEO of a nonprofit she founded called Young Americans Against Socialism. “When Alexandria Ocasio-cortez and ‘The Squad’ were getting so much positive attention, I thought it was a fad, until