She played Anna in Deaf West Theatre's 2015 revival of Spring Awakening,[2] and won the 2019 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance in Oklahoma!

At the age of two, Stroker and her brother were in a car accident that resulted in a spinal cord injury that left Ali paralyzed from the waist down.

[5] Stroker trained with the Summer Musical Theater Conservatory program at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey.

[7] Stroker starred in the Paper Mill Playhouse's production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

Stroker co-chaired an awards luncheon in 2016 for Women Who Care, which supports United Cerebral Palsy of New York City.

[15] She is a founding member of Be More Heroic, an anti-bullying campaign which tours the country connecting with thousands of students each year.

[16] She has gone to South Africa with ARTS InsideOut where she has held theater classes and workshops for women and children affected by AIDS.