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With extensive public affairs experience, Alison is comfortable answering tough media questions or mobilizing grassroots efforts for causes of great consequence. Previously she served as the director of marketing and public affairs for the North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund in Raleigh. Alison came home to North Carolina after working in national politics in Washington, D.C. for 10 years. During her stint in Washington, she worked on two national political conventions and countless gubernatorial, senatorial and congressional campaigns all across the country. She also worked on the 1996 Clinton-Gore Campaign, 2000 Gore-Lieberman campaign and the Kerry-Edwards campaign. Active at the highest levels of politics, she served as political director of the Democratic Governors’ Association, African American outreach director and Deputy to the executive director for the Democratic National Committee, and youth director for the 1997 Presidential Inaugural Committee. She also established the political consulting firm Whistlestop Communications that counseled Senator Carol Moseley Braun’s 2004 presidential campaign. She also knows her way around the newsroom, putting in two years as a general assignment reporter for the News & Observer in Raleigh and Durham. Alison is a graduate of Hampton University with a bachelor's degree in mass media arts. She earned her master’s in journalism from Northwestern University. In Raleigh she sits on the board of the Triangle Urban League and Kids Voting, and volunteers for the Raleigh Chapter of the United Cerebral Palsy. | 