Alison Powell Email and Phone Number

I am a proud co-founder and active member of the first community-owned and community-operated grocery store in Lisbon! I also serve on the Administration Board and in the Members and Finance working groups.

As Administration Coordinator, I help improve and maintain ICCA Consortium operations and logistics for its distributed and global team. Together, we help Member organizations advocate for the protection and restoration of ICCAs-Territories of Life and locally-managed conservation in general.

Project Manager for Natural Language Understanding teams at Google (g.co/nluteam): I work with research scientists, engineers, and executives to develop project plans, determine dependencies, and coordinate launches to enable language understanding features in Google products. I enforce and create flexible processes that crush entropy (http://randsinrepose.com/archives/entropy-crushers) and accelerate my teams' success.

Executive partner for Google's engineering research organization in coordinating and managing team operations such as event, hiring, budget, and space-planning. Editor-in-chief of Google Research Blog (research.googleblog.com).