A veritable tumbleweed, Allison grew up in South Dakota and graduated from Harvard College in 2010 with a B.A. in Comparative Religion. Her postgrad employment has run the gamut of super-liberal jobs, including legal assistant to a police misconduct lawyer; third grade teacher in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn; and jack-of-all-trades at an education nonprofit. Allison's first big concert was Willie Nelson (take that for what it's worth), and she prides herself on her ability to make wicked mix CDs à la 1993. When she's not aggressively Googling panda videos, Allison is asserting the superiority of South Dakota over North Dakota. (Naturally.)