Aysha was born and raised in St.Thomas, United States Virgin Islands. She is a Political Science and Africana Studies double major at Wellesley College. She is passionate about politics and law having interned for Congresswoman Donna M. Christensen, Senator Shawn-Michael Malone, and the AIDS Legal Referral Panel in San Francisco. She aspires to earn her M.P.P. / J.D. so that she can return home to the Virgin Islands and write the policies that will have a positive impact on her community.