As a scholar and activist focusing on the convergence of global climate negotiations and Green political theories, Alison is in a unique position both academically and professionally to conduct her research. Now in the third year of her doctoral studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, she focuses on the intersections of participatory democracy, ecological and social justice.

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Within the Green Party of Canada, she serves as the Critic for Intergovernmental Affairs, Women and Gender on the Shadow Cabinet as well as Co-Chair of the International Secretariat. Her initiatives include policy proposals to rescind the Natural Resources Transfer Acts, creation of the party platform supporting the decriminalization of sex work, and the relaunch of the Women’s Caucus with mentorship and peer support programs. Internationally, she represents the Federación de Partidos Verdes de las Américas (FPVA) on Global Greens Coordination and is the Co-Coordinator of the Global Greens Climate Working Group, organizing annual delegations to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP), including COP30 in Belém, Brazil.

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She has presented her work globally, including in a plenary on the Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework in Korea, political cleavages and organizational change in Sweden, critical ethnography on Green politics in Hawaii, symbolic interactions at COP in Montréal, and gender justice and climate change online for YOUNGO, the youth constituency of the UNFCCC.

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In her role as the Canada Chair of the Security and Defence wing of G100, she created a podcast called 100 Sisters on Security, covering such important gender justice issues as Indigenous rights and forest defence, peace and the Canadian Armed Forces, marginalization of Muslim im/migrants, and climate and gender-responsive financing. She also has a vlog series called Weaving Green Justice, a storytelling series that traces how climate justice is lived, contested, and fought for across negotiations, protests, and everyday realities.