Elected: 2024
Current Term Ends: 2028
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Allen worked for more than two decades at the Rochester-based marketing, communications, and public relations firm Dixon Schwabl, which has over 100 employees serving clients in the financial services, education, and B2B sectors. She joined the firm in 2001 and served as managing partner for communications prior to being named CEO in 2020. She recently announced she will depart Dixon Schwabl in October to pursue new opportunities in strategic communications.
In 2006, Allen was named by the Rochester Business Journal to its Forty Under 40 list of professionals who demonstrate leadership in the workplace and in the community. She was honored in 2018 by the Women’s Council of Rochester as an ATHENA Young Professional, which recognizes emerging women leaders who demonstrate excellence, creativity, and initiative in their business or profession.
Allen earned her degree in television-radio from the Roy H. Park School of Communications in 1996. As an alumna, she has been involved with the college as an IC Career Network volunteer and served from 2015-17 on the Alumni Association Board of Director Ad Hoc Alumni Identity Committee. In December of 2022 she hosted an alumni gathering at the Dixon Schwabl offices as part of President La Jerne Terry Cornish’s Ithaca Together Inaugural Tour.