Allison committed to a POP career while pursuing her undergraduate degree which included spending two summers volunteering as a Ronald McDonald camp counselor and her junior and senior years managing Villanova's Special Olympics Fall Festival.  After graduation, she became a Special Olympics team coach for long-distance track and field events and for the last 30 years has shared her love of the games with family and friends who have subsequently returned year after year.

Recently, Allison felt called to use her POP experience to assist others hoping to enter the field. After 27 years in clinical practice, she pivoted in 2024 to chart a new course in educating future POP professionals in the Orthotics and Prosthetics Program at Salus at Drexel University.

Allison enjoys the interpersonal connection of working with students and continues to use her experience to participate in annual pediatric mission trips to El Salvador. For one week each year, she joins a team of health care professionals who donate their time and skills to help children with orthotic and surgical needs. On the team’s most recent trip, she and her fellow POP colleague helped more than 175 children with orthotic care and the podiatric team performed 39 foot and ankle surgeries. The team of 24 left feeling confident that they had made a positive difference. Allison looks forward to helping people of all ages as she continues her POP career.