Alyssa Currier is serving as a member of the Beacon newspaper staff for the 2012–13 school year at Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa.

The Beacon staff coordinates the writing, publication and distribution of the college’s weekly newspaper.  

Currier is a junior and is majoring in Spanish and political science at Northwestern College. She is the news editor for the Beacon.

She is the daughter of Donald and Christine Currier, Ottawa.

Northwestern College is a Christian college of more than 1,240 students in Orange City, Iowa. Rated the nation’s sixth-best baccalaureate college by Washington Monthly and a top-10 Midwestern college by U.S. News & World Report magazine, Northwestern provides an education that combines academic rigor with a faith perspective.