Alison is a community development practitioner and leader, pioneer and decent generalist. She is very passionate about dot-joining and bringing (perhaps) unlikely people together to make new things. In collaboration with others she founded Vox Liminis and, prior to that, founded and led the first 10 years of the Hot Chocolate Trust. Alison has presented and published on creative community work, collaborative research, integration and reintegration, hospitality and youth and community work.