Alyssa De La O

Alyssa De La O ‘16

Recent Graduate Award

A talented artist, writer, composer, vocalist, and native of the South Side, Alyssa earned an associate’s degree from Palo Alto in communications and a B.A. in communications from Texas A&M University-San Antonio and will apply next year to a master’s program at the University of the Incarnate Word.  When she graduated from South San Antonio High School, she was the first in her family to achieve more than a middle school education.  Alyssa has created a freelance tutoring business, mentors students on the South Side, and hopes to publish her poetry novel in 2020.  But she will tell you that the “opportunity of a lifetime” was acting as the lyricist for A&M-SA’s Fight Song which was introduced to the community in the fall of last year.