At the Lawyering Project, Allison’s work focuses on protecting abortion access and bodily integrity for young people; free speech and expressive conduct; and access to safe and essential reproductive healthcare for pregnant people. Before joining the Lawyering Project in 2022, Allison was a Skadden Fellow and Staff Attorney at the Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights, where she represented students with disabilities in the juvenile justice system and litigated systemic education and youth prison conditions cases. Previously, she clerked for Judge Stephen A. Higginson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and for Judge Allyne R. Ross on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Allison received an A.B., magna cum laude, from Brown University, and a J.D., summa cum laude, from New York University School of Law, where she was an Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Fellow and the recipient of the Benjamin F. Butler Award for exemplary distinction in scholarship, character, and integrity. Her legal writing has been published in the N.Y.U. Law Review and the Louisiana Bar Journal.
Allison is licensed to practice law in Louisiana.