Besher Alayoubi was raised in Damascus, Syria and moved to the United States in 2017. He completed his college education at Saint Louis University in Neuroscience and is currently a student at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine. He is a refugee and an immigrant and understands the struggles of those who are not familiar with the American education system and hopes to help those in a similar situation as his. He is fluent in Arabic and English.