Alison Carlson is the founder of the Passport Foundation and the Forsythia Foundation, two environmentalist grantmaking foundations. After a personal health scare, Carlson became involved in numerous scientific and activist efforts regarding environmental toxins. In 2007, she co-founded the Passport Foundation with her now-ex-husband John Burbank. Three years later, she founded the Forsythia Foundation. In 2017, Forsythia went defunct and its assets were transferred to a new group with the same name.
Career
Alison Carlson earned a bachelor’s degree in human biology from Stanford University. In the late 1970s, she interned at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. 5
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