by WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2026 Non-AI Real World News
Grace Ryan is a 25-year-old chocolate heiress from Ohio and a recent New York University (NYU) graduate.
She has also “emerged as one of the most shameless members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA),” the New York Post’s Gabrielle Fahmy reported on Saturday.
Grace Ryan worked for the campaign of Working Families Party candidate Brad Lander, who won the Democrat primary for New York’s 10th Congressional District. / X
Ryan, who refers to herself as “Lulu Lenin,” is the daughter of Michael Ryan, a registered Republican who made his fortune buying Columbus’s Maramor Chocolates and turning it into a $10 million national brand.
Grace, who attended the $35,000-a-year Columbus Academy, “regularly takes to social media to defend both her socialist views and her family fortune,” Fahmy noted.
“She recently flaunted her summer at a family lake house posting photos on X of herself puffing a cigar on a boat in a $400 Ralph Lauren stars-and-stripes sweater — and posing beside a $115,000 Hummer parked in the driveway.”
The champagne socialist was roasted online for a recent post in which she wrote: “Everyone’s trying to dunk on me for being a progressive from a privileged background but like have yall never heard of noblesse oblige? I have a moral obligation to use my advantages to help those who are struggling.”
Fahmy pointed out: “The idea of ‘noblesse oblige’ conveniently lets the rich keep their fortunes so long as they deign to share a small portion of it — but the DSA’s own program advocates for a classless society, a goal Ryan doesn’t appear to be in any sort of rush to advance.”
While defending her wealth as a socialist, “Lulu Lenin” also complains about the cost of her rent-stabilized apartment, which runs over $3,000 a month.
“East Williamsburg was invented by my landlord to charge me an extra $100/month on my rent,” she said on X last year of her $3,170 a month Bushwick studio.
Fahmy noted: “The pad, in a new luxury building with a gym, squash court, rooftop, doorman, and elevator, is rent-stabilized through a city program that gives developers tax breaks in exchange for including affordable units.”
Former New York City Council Member Robert Holden told The Post of Ryan nabbing a rent-stabilized pad: “They’re literally pricing longtime New Yorkers out. Everything they do, they actually hurt New Yorkers. So spare me the noblesse oblige BS.
“At least the old communists had to seize the wealth first. Today’s laptop-latte commies already have mom and dad paying the bills while they cosplay as revolutionaries and put the boot on the neck of the working people they claim to represent.”
Everyone’s trying to dunk on me for being a progressive from a privileged background but like have yall never heard of noblesse oblige? I have a moral obligation to use my advantages to help those who are struggling
— Grace Ryan (@nycgraceryan) August 18, 2026
