Alison Harris
Alison Harris joined Good Group Decisions as Executive Assistant in 2008, after moving to Topsham in 2007 from Connecticut. She supports Craig and his team of Associates by managing the office in Brunswick while they are on the road working with our clients.
In her previous life in Connecticut and New Jersey, Alison worked in not-for-profit theatre management at the Westport (CT) Country Playhouse; McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ; and the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, CT. She also served as a management consultant to the Yale Drama School and Repertory Theatre in New Haven, CT. Between theatre assignments, she worked for five years in New Jersey's Department of the Treasury in a variety of roles: Assistant State Treasurer, Legislative Director, Assistant to the General Services Director, and Interim Administrator of the Capital City Redevelopment Corporation. Before leaving Princeton for Westport in 2000, Alison was the Business Development Director for Ford Farewell Mills and Gatsch, Architects, a firm with new design and historic preservation studios.
In the past, Alison served on the Boards of Directors of a number of arts organizations, as well as Downtown New Jersey, Inc. and the Philadelphia Chapter of the Society for Marketing Professional Services. She has served as a grants panelist for funding agencies and consulted in the field of arts management. Currently, she serves as President of the Friends of the Topsham Public Library and as a member of the Androscoggin Brunswick-Topsham Riverwalk Advisory Committee. Although a novice, she enjoys gardening and, as a member of the Topsham Garden Club, helps to maintain public gardens in the town.
Alison is a graduate of Antioch College, where she spent five years exploring her options through Antioch's pioneering co-op work study program, intermingled with academic quarters on campus in Yellow Springs. She grew up in Manhattan, spending summers in Vermont, and currently lives in Topsham with her husband, Bernie Breitbart, a retired cameraman.