Alegre has been volunteering on campaigns since the days of George McGovern, and has worked for progressive causes she believes in for the past 35 years.  She started posting to online discussion boards in the mid-1990s and has been active on line ever since.  She works as a paralegal in a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C., where she lives with her husband and two children.  She is active with her local group of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, but has no official tie to the campaign itself