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Alison Goldstein Lebovitz is an Emmy-nominated television host, professional speaker, nonprofit executive, author, and podcaster who believes we each have the power and responsibility to make this world a better place. Since 2008, she has served as the host of The A List with Alison Lebovitz, a half-hour original series produced by WTCI-PBS, where she interviews a diverse array of popular and prominent personalities from around the globe. As a motivational speaker she combines her penchant for humor with her passion for storytelling to deliver inspiring messages about faith, philanthropy and the power of community, and has been honored to serve as a TedX speaker, coach and emcee. She is the author of Am I There Yet? a collection of her candid essays and life-inspired stories, and in her spare time she hosts a weekly podcast with her sister called Sis & Tell.

Since 2008, Alison has served as co-founder and president of One Clip at a Time, a nonprofit inspired by the Paper Clips Project started in Whitwell, Tennessee, that promotes student activism and supports service learning in classrooms across North America. She has been active with dozens of local and national nonprofit boards, and currently serves as a board member for JewBelong (where she is Board Chair), Jewish Federation of Greater Chattanooga, Foundation for Jewish Camp and the Tennessee Holocaust Commission. She is also a proud co-founder of Aleph Bet Children’s Center (the first and only Jewish preschool in Chattanooga that opened in 2002), a past Campaign Chair for United Way of Greater Chattanooga and a past Co-Chair of National Young Leadership for Jewish Federations of North America.

Professionally, Alison also has worked as a political analyst and speech writer for the Consulate General of Japan in Chicago, an international press coordinator for the Coca-Cola Company during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, and a public relations executive for Johnson Waterhouse Public Relations in Chattanooga. In 2006, Alison became one of the youngest people to be named the Leadership Fundraiser of the Year by the Southeastern Tennessee Association of Fundraising Professionals, and in 2007, she was designated as a Chattanooga Woman of Distinction.

A native of Birmingham, Alabama, Alison graduated with honors from Brandeis University and holds a master’s degree in radio/television/film from Northwestern University. She and her husband, Alan, live in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and are the proud parents of three young men(sches), Arthur, Abe and Levi.