Alyssa Berger is a Family Nurse Practitioner and a Clinical Instructor with the University of Colorado College of Nursing. She works at Denver Health in one of their community family medicine clinics and the hospital in their newborn nursery. She attended the University of Colorado for graduate school and the University of Washington for her undergraduate degree. She worked as a Cardiothoracic ICU nurse in Seattle at the University of Washington Medical Center before going to graduate school at CU.

Her passion is rooted in working with underserved pediatric, neonatal, and perinatal populations both locally and globally. She has dedicated her career to working within federally qualified health centers and optimizing access to quality healthcare for all populations. She has helped establish primary care clinics in Haiti and helped work with local organizations in Southern India, setting up healthcare access to rural villages and communities. She enjoys hiking, yoga, playing with her two dogs in the mountains, and investing in students on their own healthcare journeys.