The mission of Expression City Arts and Fitness is to unite the Nashville community through creative expression, arts education, and community service. Interdisciplinary programs feature cross-training in circus, music, dance, art, acting, homeschool performing arts academy, and artistic professional development. Expression City Arts and Fitness provides a home for students and professionals in middle Tennessee to grow as artists and as individuals who use their talents to positively impact their community.

Expression City Performing Arts Academy is a specialty school offering one to four-year programs in acting, dance, music, and comparative arts to students ages ten and up in beautiful Brentwood, Tennessee.

As a branch of Expression City Arts and Fitness, Nashville Circus Center's mission is to positively impact the lives of children, adults, and local organizations through circus education, outreach, performance opportunities, and elite quality training.The Center will serve as a home for circus professionals, hobbyists, and enthusiasts to come together in a shared space that emphasizes principles of collaboration, creative expression, and community.

Allison Barberi is a loving wife and proud mother who has dedicated her life to the health, happiness, and success of her family, as well as to helping others and increasing public awareness of sensitive multicultural and adoptive issues.Barberi is responsible for homeschooling her twelve children, five of whom she adopted from Liberia, West Africa. As matriarch to a multicultural family, she is intimately familiar with the needs and concerns of parents and children in such family settings and is passionate about sharing her knowledge and experience to help them overcome any obstacles or issues they may encounter.An incredible stride toward this goal, Barberi’s debut title, My Sister Abby, reaching #1 on Amazon's bestseller list, was inspired by the relationship between her daughters, Abby and Emma, and celebrates the harmonies that exist within a diverse family.

As a health and wellness consultant, through coaching and public speaking, Allison helps individuals adopt a new approach to weight loss enabling them to lose weight, get healthy, and find happiness.