Ally was a US Navy F/A-18 pilot, most recently stationed at NAS Oceana, Virginia Beach, VA. She is currently studying at St. John's Univeristy and teaching at the Naval Academy. Ally was a 2017 Mitchell Scholar who studied Electronic and Communications Engineering at DIT. She is a graduate of the US Naval Academy where she studied Weapons & Systems Engineering, academically ranked in the top 5% of her class, and was the captain of the Naval Academy’s Women’s Ice Hockey team. She has synesthesia, a neurological condition in which one sense is perceived and then overlapped by others. Her interest in prosthetics and medical device design stems from her own sensitivity to movement. Her undergraduate project involved modernizing a common 3D-printed prosthetic hand for children so that it is touchscreen compatible. Her master’s project at DIT was the creation of a small, portable, Bluetooth enabled phantom limb stimulation device. She enjoys the outdoors from backpacking in the Alaskan wilderness to climbing Mt. Ararat in Turkey. She is also a potter. She hopes to create a business post her pilot service that makes medical devices for veterans.