Allison is Director of the Rights Claiming and Accountability program at the Center for Economic and Social Rights in New York where her work focuses on tools and resources for monitoring and adocacy. Prior to joining the Center in 2011, she spent a year with the Economic and Social Rights Department at the Kenya National Commission for Human Rights, under the auspices of the 2010‐2011 David W. Leebron Human Rights Fellowship from Columbia Law School. In previous positions she has worked with the Australian Human Rights Commission and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.