Allison is Regional Counsel for the Northeast and Latin American regions at Gensler, a global architecture and design firm. As part of her role, Allison provides legal advice, contract review, litigation management, training and general risk management to the New York, Morristown, Boston, Toronto, Mexico, Costa Rica and Sao Paulo offices of Gensler. Prior to joining Gensler, she was Vice President and Associate Counsel, Corporate at a global civil engineering firm. Allison's undergraduate degree is in Architecture with a minor in City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley. She also has a Masters in Urban Planning from Columbia University and a Juris Doctor from Hofstra University. She is licensed to practice law in New York State. Allison is a board member of the Greater New York chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel, a member of the Executive Committees of the International and Corporate Counsel sections of the New York State Bar Association, where she is the co-chair of the Corporate Counsel Committee of the International Section and co-editor of the Inside newsletter which is the quarterly publication of the Corporate Counsel Section. Allison is also active with the Mayor's Art Council in her hometown of Westbury, Long Island, and a strong supporter of Jampact, Inc., a non-profit devoted to adopting and building schools in Jamaica, where her father was born.