Allison Dodson was elected secretary of the North Carolina Council on Developmental Disabilities at its annual meeting in November. Dodson is the director of parent and family services at Appalachian State University and lives in Blowing Rock. She is an advocate for her sister, Jennifer, who was born with tuberous sclerosis.

The article ran in the Winston-Salem Journal Newspaper and the Winston-Salem Journal online on 2/29/2020.