Allison holds an undergraduate degree from Queen's University and graduated with a master's in Science Writing from MIT in 2011. She interned at the NIH's National Institute of General Medical Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland and has done freelance writing for Technology Review.
She now works on the business side of book publishing in Toronto, Canada where she maintains an interest in health and behavioral science.
Thesis:
Aspartame: Artifice and the Science of Sweet