A barrier-breaking, award-winning media executive, producer and editor, Alison was the first woman to run a national general interest sports magazine when she became editor in chief of ESPN The Magazine, leading the brand to a Peabody Award and a National Magazine Award for General Excellence. As a senior vice president at ESPN, she went on to lead the company’s Storytelling & Journalism division, a multiplatform portfolio including E60, Outside The Lines, ESPN Cover Story, espnW, The ESPN Daily podcast, The ESPYS, 30 for 30 Podcasts, ESPN’s Investigative Unit, ESPN The Magazine and all of ESPN’s global digital longform journalism.During her tenure, Alison’s teams earned multiple Emmys, Webbys, Gracies, Folio Awards and New York Press Club Awards, as well as the 2019 Peabody for reporting on the Michigan State/USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal, and for crafting the cultural touchstone Arthur Ashe Courage Award presentation to 141 survivors on the live ABC network broadcast of that year’s ESPYS awards show. Adweek twice named Alison one of the 30 Most Powerful Women in Sports, and she was one of CableFax’s Most Powerful Women in Cable four years running, as well as an honoree on its Diversity List of the most influential multiethnic executives in media. In 2021, Alison became General Manager of Oprah Daily, responsible for the launch and leadership of the new multiplatform lifestyle brand from Oprah Winfrey and Hearst Magazines. She pioneered Hearst’s interactive livestream class technology for Oprah to bring her signature wellness content to the Oprah Insiders community, which became the fastest-growing paid membership at Hearst under Alison’s leadership, and launched The Life You Want Planner, a guided meditation journal that remains Hearst’s best-selling product. With a business brain and a storyteller's soul, Alison is passionate about sports, wellness, emerging technology and inclusion of traditionally underrepresented communities—she recently launched Good People LLC, a creative content strategy and production company, to support organizations and their strategic storytelling needs with good people, great ideas, and exceptional execution. She teaches a course on the business of journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, is strategic advisor and acting CMO to an early-stage sports fintech startup, and serves on the board of the National Society of Magazine Editors. Alison holds a BA in government, with honors, from Harvard University, and lives in West Hartford, CT with her husband Seth and their two children.