Alison Ingersoll graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1987 and has been in full-time ministry ever since. After 23 years on staff with Cru reaching college students for Christ, she spent four years with Global Service Network helping with exchange programs for professionals and students to and from East Asia and being the HR Director for their Associates in Ministry program. Now she is combining her experience with both organizations to start a local ministry for women in the marketplace called Women with Purpose. She and her husband, Shaun, were married in 2009 and live in Raleigh.