OH-12: Alaina Shearer (D)
PROFILE
About Shearer:
Alaina Shearer is a mom and a business owner.
Born and raised in Delaware, Ohio, Alaina Shearer graduated from Ohio University with a degree in broadcast journalism. She went on to win two Associated Press awards as a radio reporter and news anchor for WTVN and WNCI.
Shearer built her career by learning digital and tech. In the span of five years she went from making $8.00 an hour to growing her small business to nearly $2 million per year in revenue. And in 2016, Alaina created a national network for women in digital and tech.
Shearer was born in Ohio where her father Dr. Raymond Shearer had a small family practice and where her mother, Valerie, had a retail shop on Sandusky Street.
Alaina and her husband, Seth, are raising four children, Lily, Benjamin, Cohen, and Foster on a farm house built in 1807 in Liberty Township in Delaware County.