Malayna Stober is from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and graduated in May 2025 with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and minors in  American Sign Language and Criminology. She is now pursuing a master's degree in counseling and mental health and rehabiltation at the University of Iowa. After graduating from graduate school, she plans to stay in Iowa and work at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics or open her own clinic as a psychologist working with both child and adult patients.