Allison M. Staton is the Director of Advocacy at the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations. Ms. Staton joined MACDC in April 2007 and is responsible for leading MACDC’s legislative work in the State House, enhancing our external communications and serves on our management team. Prior to joining MACDC, she was the Director of Advocacy at The Women’s Union (now Crittenton Women’s Union). She co-led the Workforce Solutions Group and managed the Family Economic Self-Sufficiency (FESS) project which documents the true costs of raising families in Massachusetts to influence public policy and workforce initiatives.
From 1996 until January 2005, Ms. Staton worked at Health Care For All as an organizer, policy analyst, department manager and communications director. Ms. Staton coordinated the 1996 legislative campaign to expand children’s health care with tobacco taxes (the model for federal SCHIP) and created a teen-oriented outreach campaign about the availability of health coverage. She facilitated the overhaul of the organization’s image including the web site and logo.
Prior to her advocacy work, Ms. Staton taught elementary school in New Orleans through Teach For America. She has her B.A. from Skidmore College and an M.S. from the Harvard School of Public Health. She lives in Dedham with her husband, twin sons and daughter.
