Alicia grew up in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts. With her parents and three brothers, she was active in the Congregational Church. As a young adult, she explored numerous faith traditions and found a spiritual home in the Unitarian Universalist Church in Concord, New Hampshire. Having graduated from Springfield College with a major in counseling, she joined the world of human services as a mental health counselor. She spent more than ten years working with mental health agencies and later with at-risk children and families.

It was during this work that she experienced a strong call to the ministry. She graduated from Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, California. While in seminary, she met and later married her husband, Steve. They moved to Missouri, where she spent a couple of years as an intern and interim minister in St. Louis. As avid hikers and kayakers, Alicia and Steve longed for the mountains and water, and in 2001, they moved to the Pacific Northwest to serve a church in Marysville. After a vibrant three-year ministry, Alicia was called to UUC. She focuses her ministry to mirror her passions: membership and pastoral care.