Tonya is a Colorado Native. She spent her childhood baking, playing volleyball, basketball and hanging out with family. She graduated from Ambassador College with a bachelors in psychology and family studies. Her favorite classes were nutrition, psychology, and dabbling in German.

She has two sons who also enjoy the same activites as her. Tonya enjoys sipping whiskey by the fire with cornhole, Cards Against Humanity, tennis, watching scary movies and Star Wars.