Alison is a Freelance Arts Program and Development Consultant and a recent San Francisco transplant. She graduated with a B.A. in Art History and English from Canisius College in Buffalo, N.Y. and received an M.A. in Art and Museum Studies from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. During her tenure at Georgetown she spent a semester in London where she completed a course in Art and Business with a focus on contemporary art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art. Prior to her move Westward, Alison was the Development & Community Outreach Coordinator for Transformer, a non-profit alternative art space in Washington, D.C., where she coordinated public programing initiatives including the organization’s Framework Panel Series, and assisted with development operations ranging from grant writing to donor cultivation. While in D.C., Alison also served as Co-Founder of Knowledge Commons DC – a free, self-generating “school” designed to provide non-traditional community learning and instruction.