Alison was born in Sacramento, California and spent her formative years in Taipei, Taiwan. She was raised in an Air Force family, moving back and forth between Fairfax, VA and the beautiful island.  Her father later retired and joined a US multinational firm to manage its electronics factory in the southern port and Export Processing Zone of KaoHsiung.  She graduated high school from a boarding school in Taichung, Taiwan before returning to the USA for university.  She graduated from the University of California-Berkeley with a Bachelors degree, and The London School of Economics with a Masters of Science degree.  

 Alison spent eight years in the financial industry, in banking and lending, after a management-training program with Bank of America.  She continued with Citibank’s International Private Banking Group then joined Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., after a brief project with Boston Consulting Group, trading in its elite stock and options trading group serving the bank’s top 2% of private investors.   She then decided to serve in the US Peace Corps in its Business Development Group, as Director/Volunteer of a business incubator in Plovdiv, Bulgaria the country's second largest city.  She led the growth of a national alternative Women’s Association and launched projects related to teaching ethics and business.  Following the Peace Corps, she remained in country and joined a consultant firm to the World Bank, with work on a project to bring the Varna state enterprise private, under its privatization program in Bulgaria.   

 After returning to the USA she found her place in the world of education, working with felons to help them earn their High School GED's.  This opened the door to teaching credentials in Secondary and Special Education, as well as certifications to work with students on the Autism spectrum and as an Educational Therapist.  She has had opportunity to work in and with virtually every possible venue and demographic of education in the San Francisco Bay Area, reaping rich reward.  It has been, and is, her joy and profession.  In her free time, Alison volunteers time to work with people recovering from alcohol and drug addiction.  

From a young age, growing up in Bangalore, India, I have been a voracious reader, and blessed with an ability to absorb the best of what I read and what I observe. My thought process is almost entirely fact and data-driven, but with an ability to empathize with people who don’t agree with my views.

From the moment I traveled from India and landed in Lexington, KY for a Master’s Degree in Engineering 36 years ago, and was greeted by my ‘host’ parent Overton Green, I felt the warm embrace and the promise of this great country.  Through hard work and persistence, I was able to succeed in my career, start a family, and achieve the American dream. Through the 3 million miles globally that I traveled during my career, I got the unique opportunity to see America through the eyes of citizens of other nations -as the shining beacon on the hill, a nation of equal rights and opportunities, of world-class learning, and world-renowned companies and institutions.

Everyone who knows me observes that I am logical, rational and thoughtful, except when I hear someone unfairly criticizing my beloved nation.  While I recognize that we all have to reflect and learn, I believe that we as Americans need to be proud of the progress we have made. 

My life has traversed two worlds -the pre-internet, traditional world, where making eye-contact was a necessity of everyday life, and the current world, where there is an app for everything. And having grown up in India, and having spent most of my adult life in the US, I experienced both Asian and Western cultures, and was able to absorb the best of both.

One similarity between the two cultures is the importance of a family to a person’s well-being and our country’s foundation.  I have been married for over 20 years and have two adult children attending college. As empty-nesters, my wife and I lean on each other more for support, and both of us love to travel (at least until Covid came along).

Politics has never been a central part of my life until a few years ago, when I started to follow the Clinton-Trump campaign.  The first thing I noticed was how Democrats are triggered by superficial statements, and never bother to debate policy.  Then I closely followed the America First policies that President Trump implemented and understood why that was necessary to change the dangerous trajectory our country was headed in. And it wasn’t acceptable to me that the Democrats would so casually call him a traitor for his contributions.

Finally, I decided to do run because our district has not been adequately represented.  People are genuinely concerned about inflation and the economy, skyrocketing crime rates and the state of our public schools.  Over three months, I researched and developed unique solutions to the issues facing mainstream Americans and adopted this as my solutions platforms.  These can be viewed on my website: www.iyer4congress.com

I am running because there has never such a stark contrast between conservative and liberal policies.  In essence, it is the difference between the direction our country is headed vs. the direction Americans want it to be headed.

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This administration's ideological zeal has forced everyday Americans to either conform to its beliefs or be called 'terrorists', 'racists', 'climate deniers' and other abuses.

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I am well-informed enough to know that we can be responsible citizens and stewards without resorting to extremes.  But  we all need to acknowledge that our country can't withstand another two years of further damage.

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Over the past year, I have been outraged by the rising costs, broken borders, the defund movement and senseless attacks on police, women, and minorities.  The economic and competitive foundation of our country is under attack everyday by the progressive, woke ideology.  I have a clear plan for keeping us competitive by guaranteeing our energy independence, keeping taxes low, strengthening small businesses, onshoring critical industries to create high-paying jobs, and continuing with the market-driven pathway to carbon-dioxide reduction. I strongly support parental input into school curriculum and funding private school choice with tax dollars. I would prioritize strengthening police and border security, enforcing all laws, deporting illegal criminals, stopping the flow of dangerous drugs, and reducing homelessness by refocusing rehabilitation and retraining efforts.  I welcome more legal immigration, including reducing wait times and reuniting families.

To reduce inflation and create more opportunities for Americans, I would initiate the following legislation:

-          Strengthen distribution networks, and introduce more truck drivers by removing any incentives not to work.

-          Require industries dependent on a single country to diversify sources, and bring sources closer to home.

-          Support a balanced monetary policy that keeps American industries competitive.

For reducing crime, I would support the following legislation:

• Introduce legislation to allow victims to seek alternate path to justice through federal courts.

• Stop all initiatives by current government to undermine law enforcement.

• Require that all laws be enforced, if not allow prosecution of DAs under federal law.

• Ban catch and release of repeat offenders and sex predators.

• Address negative bias in the police force.

• Ensure that the $150,000/year being spent on each homeless person goes towards rehabilitation

For allowing more parental input into school curriculum, I would take the following actions:

• Introduce legislation to ban teaching of age-inappropriate topics and CRT without parental consent.

• Support legislation promoting STEM learning for girls and women.

• Allow tax dollars to follow student to the school of their choice

• Introduce legislation to mandate in-person learning for children

• Declare Education a ‘critical industry’ to outlaw the hold of teacher’s unions.

• Introduce severe penalties for drug dealing near schools.

• Encourage companies and institutions to provide more internships and entry-level positions to graduates

To reduce emissions and waste, I would support the following legislation:

• Let market forces decide which renewables source to adopt.  Gradually introduce caps on CO2 emissions.

• Demand that other nations meet commitment, if not impose a carbon tax on the goods imported.

• Incentivize on-shoring of climate critical industries like solar panel and wind turbine manufacturing,

• Diversify our sources of lithium and other rare earths by allowing domestic mining and forming consortiums.

• Support legislation to introduce new home-grown technologies and degradable materials to replace plastics.

• Support laws to ban dumping in the oceans and waterways and eliminate deforestation.

• Force utilities, which benefit from lower wholesale cost of energy from renewables, to pass on savings to consumers.