Allison Plattsmier

Allison Plattsmier (ne Quintanilla) was born and raised in Nashville, TN where she attended Hume-Fogg Academic Magnet High School. After graduating with honors in 2012, she completed her undergraduate degree in only three years and graduated with a 4.0 GPA from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 2015 with a B.S. in Political Science: Public Administration and Nonprofit Management and a minor in Entrepreneurship. She received her M.Ed. in Community Development and Action from Vanderbilt University's Peabody College in 2016. She also completed an elite Masters of Business Administration program in four months through Smartly and received her Certified Nonprofit Professional designation from the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance. She is currently pursuing her Doctorate of Education in Leadership and Professional Practice at Trevecca. Allison has over nine years of experience in the nonprofit sector. Her work experience includes Special Events Intern for the American Diabetes Association, Program Administrative Assistant for Mental Health America of Middle Tennessee, Special Events Coordinator for the T.J. Martell Foundation, and Development Coordinator for the Center for Refugees and Immigrants of Tennessee (CRIT), Executive Director of Amputee Blade Runners (ABR), and Associate Director of Programs and Development for the Transit Alliance of Middle Tennessee. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Tennessee Intercollegiate State Legislature (TISL) Foundation. She is a member of CNM's Young Nonprofit Professionals, the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), the Association of Certified Nonprofit Professionals (ACNP), the Association of Latino Professionals for America, Junior League of Nashville, Nashville Junior Chamber, Pi Sigma Alpha Political Honor Society, and Golden Key International Honor Society. She is a recent recipient of AFP's Outstanding Young Professional Award, the Congressional Award Gold Medal, the youngest recipient of both Nashville's Top 30 Under 30 and Nashville Business Journal's 40 Under 40, as well as Nashville Business Journal's Employee of the Year in the Community Impact category. She volunteers with the Heimerdinger Foundation, Doing Good, Hands on Nashville, and the American Red Cross of Nashville on an ongoing basis but volunteers with a variety of other organizations through their special events. She serves as Public Relations Chair on the Doing Good Board of Directors and on the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce's Moving Forward Public Engagement Task Force. She is a DoSomething.org Ambassador and serves as an advocate for gun violence prevention, ending the cycle of poverty, and social justice equality. Allison's areas of interest are public health, equal access to public resources for underprivileged and economically disadvantaged populations, and eradicating food insecurity. In her free time, she enjoys volunteering, reading, singing, running, and hanging out with her phenomenal husband, Kris, and their three cats, Sheena, Jacinda, and Milo.