Allison is a 2L from Cincinnati, Ohio. After studying History and Africana Studies at Brown University, she moved to Germany to work as an English Teaching Assistant. Later, she returned to the US where she was a Project Assistant at a DC-based think tank. At law school, Allison is the Communications Director for Harvard Defenders and is the Co-Chair for the Black Law Students Association’s Public Interest Committee. She spent her first law school summer as a Law Clerk at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia in the Trial Division. Allison hopes to become a public defender.