Alison Plante is Professor of Screen Scoring at Berklee College of Music and Program Director for the Berklee Online Masters of Music in Film Scoring. She has been a dedicated advocate for women composers throughout her teaching and professional work, including by serving as the faculty advisor for the Women's Film Initiative at Berklee since its founding. She was also the first female Chair of a collegiate Film Scoring department. Her more than two decades of scoring work includes credits in educational television; History Channel and PBS specials; award-winning documentary features and shorts; national TV spots, trailers, and corporate identity music; live action and animated shorts; theater (with a specialty in puppetry); and multimedia museum installations for the Smithsonian Institution and the Harvard Museum of Natural History. In her free time she has served on the board of other arts organizations, and is active as a climate activist.