Dr. Allison Padilla-Goodman is the director of the South-Central Region of the Anti-Defamation League, covering Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas. The Anti-Defamation League is a 102-year-old civil rights and human relations agency that fights anti-Semitism and discrimination against all. Allison is a sociologist whose academic career focused on race relations and urban development. She has worked in public education and community organizing in New Orleans for more thanr a decade. Allison is a native New Orleanian, although she has lived on four different continents at different times.