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Alliscia joined the UMBC family as an undergraduate student in 1998, where she majored in Spanish and German. During her undergraduate career, Alliscia was selected as a Humanities Scholar and enjoyed membership in the Honors College, both of which afforded her the opportunity for a semester of study in Spain. After earning her B.A., she continued at UMBC with graduate work in the Applied and Professional Ethics program where she integrated professional opportunities with academic training in analysis and research. The result was successful completion of her M.A. in the Applied and Professional Ethics program.

Throughout her undergraduate and graduate studies, Alliscia has worked for the federal government in several positions in the Social Security Administration. She started as a student clerk, providing service directly to the public and later moved to a processing units providing indirect support to the public. Upon graduating with her B.A., she became a bilingual social insurance specialist, once again supplying services, especially to non-English speaking members of the public. Alliscia currently works for the Social Security Administration but looks forward to exploring other opportunities within the agency.

By working with such an economically, linguistically, and racially diverse population, Alliscia’s research interests lie in analyzing how these factors contribute to inequality and discrimination within the structure of the government agency, as well as the rules and regulations of policy formation and execution. She hopes that such research will reveal avenues to structural and policy reform.

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