From afternoons watching Animal Planet and begging for riding lessons at the age of seven, Alyssa gave her heart to animals early. After relocating back to Virginia from Maryland, Fox Moon found her at a time of growth and healing in her own life, inspiring a desire to give back and deepen her involvement with the project’s many worthy goals.

A proud theater, art history, and book nerd, when she’s not being the farm’s designated treat dispenser for the horses, she’s most likely in the pages of a book or at her easel.