Alli Pillion is a Senior Business Development Associate at POLITICO, specializing in Media Solutions since July 2022. Prior experience includes roles as an Evaluation Research Assistant at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and as a Healthy Futures AmeriCorps Member with the International Rescue Committee. Alli served as a Governor's Fellow for the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security within the Commonwealth of Virginia, and worked as an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant at Virginia Tech. Earlier, Alli contributed as a Diplomacy Lab Research Assistant for the U.S. Department of State and held a fellowship with NextGen America. Alli holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in National Security and Foreign Affairs from Virginia Tech, completed in 2021.