Allison earned an Sc.B. in Civil Engineering at Brown University in Providence, RI and worked as an intern at Odeh Engineers. During her undergraduate career, she studied civil engineering and worked at SIEC Engineering and Construction in Santander, Spain. She then earned a Masters of Engineering in Structural Engineering at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA, where she worked on a year-long design project of a concrete high-rise residential building.