Alyson Teeter is a graduate student in mass communications at San Jose State University. She has served as a volunteer for the City of Sunnyvale/Pathways Home Health Hospice, and for the Moffett Field 129th Rescue Wing. She has been an intern with Parsons Public Relations in Seattle, a public affairs officer for the United States Air Force, and a public affairs officer for the California Air National Guard. She plans to graduate in May of 2008.

She also enjoys bow hunting in the quiet hush of Autumn mornings. For her, the thrill of the hunt is as exhilarating as the silent contemplative time she spends in the low hills surrounding her family's compound with her three dogs Buck, Steve, and Ginger.