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Allison Bailey, Sales Manager, Northwest

Allison is based in San Francisco and covers the states of Oregon, Indiana, Washington, Colorado, Arkansas and northern California. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area, she earned her B.A. in Cognitive Science from UC Berkeley. Before joining African Travel she worked as a Travel Advisor at Direct Travel, where she gained firsthand experience as a frontline agent and helped execute Direct Travel’s events in the Western region. Voted one of ASTA's top 30 "Rising Stars" in 2017, Bailey is also a Virtuoso Travel Academy graduate, and a member of the Young Travel Professionals industry group. 

Allison has traveled to 36 countries around the world, studied in the Netherlands, and worked in the UK. Her love affair with Africa began after a life-changing experience in Botswana last November with African Travel, after which she knew that she wanted to sell safaris and help others discover this extraordinary continent.