Joining Wine Institute in 2003, shortly after the publication of the California Code of Sustainable Winegrowing, Allison Jordan helped create the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance – a nonprofit organization established by the Institute and the California Association of Winegrape Growers to promote sustainability from grapes to glass. Since 2007, Allison has served as Executive Director of the Alliance, where she is responsible for leading the award-winning California Sustainable Winegrowing Program and Certified California Sustainable Winegrowing. She also serves as Vice President, Environmental Affairs for Wine Institute, a department she established in 2007 to address wine industry environmental and sustainability issues at local, state, federal and international levels. Allison is Vice Chair of the National Grape Research Alliance Board of Directors and a frequent speaker at industry events and international conferences.

Allison holds a Master of Public Policy degree from the Goldman School of Public Policy at University of California Berkeley, a Psychology B.A. from Allegheny College. She also received a Certificate in Wine Business Management from Sonoma State University, and achieved WSET Level 2 from the Wine & Spirit Education Trust. Allison is now teaching sustainable enterprises courses at Sonoma State University in the Executive Wine MBA program. In addition, she is a fellow in the German Marshall Fund's American Marshall Memorial Fellowship program, designed to create a transatlantic network of policy leaders. Allison and her husband are founders of two restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area – Giordano Bros. (recently sold after 18 years) and Monk’s Kettle Terra Linda – and live in Marin with their two children where they enjoy hiking, camping and making music.