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Daisha Wilks

Daisha Wilks is an Alabama videographer and travel creator who joined The Amazing Race season 39 with fellow filmmaker Dalton Hamby.

Biography

Daisha Wilks is a videographer and travel creator from Flat Rock, Alabama. She competed with Dalton Hamby on The Amazing Race season 39.

Travel videos and The Amazing Race season 39 with Dalton Hamby.

Known for

The Amazing Race season 39

Travel videos and The Amazing Race season 39 with Dalton Hamby.[1]

Career highlights

  1. Career 1

    Biology studies at Jacksonville State

    Wilks earned a master’s degree in biology at Jacksonville State University and worked as a graduate teaching assistant. Before choosing a life built around travel, she had intended to pursue medicine.[4][5]

  2. Career 2

    From childhood videos to paid work

    As a child, she enlisted friends in improvised plays filmed on her family’s camera. She later made videos for businesses and weddings with Hamby, alongside material for their own travel channels.[5]

  3. Career 3

    A three-month trip through Asia

    Their first extended trip together lasted three months and began in the Philippines. They also visited Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia, initially using savings from Wilks’s restaurant work and Hamby’s emergency-management job.[5]

  4. Career 4

    The audition from Alabama

    Her mother suggested applying to The Amazing Race. Wilks and Hamby filmed their submission outdoors in September 2024, then heard from casting while visiting Laos in February 2025. They initially questioned whether the email was genuine.[4]

  5. Career 5

    Training in Jacksonville

    Preparation combined running with puzzle practice. The couple used Jacksonville State’s stadium and campus as training grounds, fitting sessions around the secrecy required before their television appearance.[4][5]