Alison Maxfield
Language Teacher
A North Carolina native, Allison grew up with a love of learning instilled by her parents. She began learning Spanish in 6th grade and instantly fell in love with the language, which led to eleven more years of study in middle, high school, and college. In college, she spent a semester abroad in Barcelona studying international business and marketing while fully immersed in the beauty and culture of the city. With a degree in Business & Economics and minors in Anthropology and Spanish from Lehigh University in 2007, she went on to work in advertising. Just as she was beginning to feel the need to contribute in a more meaningful way to the world, she serendipitously stumbled upon the Teaching Fellows program in 2009 and began classes towards her master’s degree in teaching while teaching Spanish at a school in the southeast Bronx. The rest is history…
