Alexandria Hamm graduated from Macomb High School in 2009 and is now a freshman at Western Illinois University studying elementary education and special education. She comes from a family of six in Macomb, Illinois, where she has worked at the WIU Infant/Preschool Center for a year and teaches gymnastics at the local YMCA. In her free time, she enjoys educational websites related to teaching, math games, trivia, and researching schools and programs.