Alyson is a multidisciplinary designer that believes our government should function in the best interest of the people, especially at a time when trust in government is at its lowest.

She graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a degree in Industrial Design. Through her work there in and out of the classroom, she realized the potential of participatory design to deliver high quality and community-led solutions that would work for the people actually using them. She previously helped demonstrate the potential of AR technology to address civic problems in El Paso, TX as a Coding It Forward Design Fellow. Now, after more than a year as the primary designer at a SaaS startup, she is volunteering with OpenOakland on a project to help increase participation in local government.