Allison Nickerson is the Executive Director of LiveOn NY, a statewide membership organization representing nonprofit aging service providers working to ensure that older New Yorkers have the resources, services, and opportunities they need to thrive. Built through more than 40 years of advocacy, coalition-building, and leadership in the aging services sector, LiveOn NY has grown into a powerful network with a significant community and economic footprint across New York. Its member organizations collectively represent approximately $4 billion in assets and $3.7 billion in annual revenue. Together, this network brings deep expertise and a strong, unified voice to the policies and investments that shape how New Yorkers experience aging.
Since becoming Executive Director in 2016, Allison has led LiveOn NY in harnessing the strength of this network to advance meaningful change for older adults and the organizations that serve them. LiveOn NY’s work spans affordable housing policy, community-based service infrastructure, professional development and organizational capacity, and economic security. Through advocacy, policy development, coalition building, and cross-sector partnerships, Allison works to grow resources, strengthen services, and build the systems necessary for New Yorkers to age with dignity, security, and opportunity. Prior to becoming Executive Director, Allison served as LiveOn NY’s Director of Development and as Assistant Director of a geriatric research consortium focused on pain in later life at Weill Cornell Medical College.
Allison serves on numerous task forces and committees, including as Chair of U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s Aging Workgroup. She was appointed to Mayor Mamdani’s Transition Team and the NYC Mayor’s Office Age Friendly Initiative and serves as an appointed stakeholder for the New York State Governor’s Master Plan for Aging. She is a frequent speaker on aging policy, impact campaigns, and intergenerational activism. Allison holds an MSW from Columbia University, with minors in business and law, and a BA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst
