Allyson W. Anderson, J.D.

Escambia County Healthy Start Coalition, Inc., Executive Director

Allyson has been the Executive Director of the Escambia County Healthy Start Coalition for two years, and has loved finding her professional home in maternal and infant health. Prior to joining Healthy Start, Allyson served as Director of Policy and Evaluation for the Georgia Office of the Child Advocate and as Director of Advocacy for Georgia CASA, the state Guardian Ad Litem Program, while also serving on several Boards of Directors for youth-serving organizations. Her greatest accomplishment is raising 18-year-old twins, Casey and Jack, who are now at the University of Florida and Florida State University studying actuarial science and meteorology. She is a member of Gulf Breeze United Methodist Church where she taught Sunday School and has been married to her husband Tom for 31 years.