Allison Martin is pursuing a master’s degree in nursing administration at Trinity Washington University. Allison has earned two bachelor’s degrees—one in biology from Tennessee State and one in nursing from Howard University. Allison, who hails from Tennessee, has worked as a nurse in critical care, home health and in outpatient settings. She currently serves students and staff at the Trinity Health Center while studying for her degree. In her spare time, she volunteers with area food banks, collects clothing for unhoused women and those in shelters, and, at her church, shares information about health and wellness with members.
Allison is focused on advocacy to improve work environments for nurses in areas such as workplace violence, safe staffing levels, and equitable wages. She also advocates for reducing the inequities in health care that result from institutional racism, which is affecting both patients and nurses. This advocacy work, accomplished through her nursing sorority and professional nurses’ association networks, is aimed at both legislative and policy changes in the health care system. She will continue with her new degree to work actively as a bedside nurse, to maintain her connection to the issues that require advocacy and policy change.
