Alyson Francisco

Alyson is a native of North Carolina and has more than twenty-five years of business experience including executive level positions with Sara Lee Corporation and Hanes Brands, Inc. She is currently on the Business and Economics faculty at Salem College where she teaches finance and entrepreneurship. She also serves as the Director of the Salem College Center for Women in Business where she focuses on linking Salem to the external professional community through relevant business programming, networking forums, and helping students secure mentoring opportunities, internships and job placements.

She is a graduate of NC State University and holds an MBA from Duke University. She is a 2012 graduate of Leadership Winston-Salem and currently serves as an Action Learning Coach.  She also is involved in the community through her work with the Center for Women in Business, as a board member of the Center for Creative Economy, and as a board member and Treasurer of the Winston-Salem Youth Chorus.