Alison Bologna

About

Alison Bologna is an award-winning journalist who anchors NBC 10 News Sunrise delivering 12+ hours of live broadcasts every week, while also contributing investigative reports with the franchise: Ask Alison. Readers of Rhode Island Monthly Magazine have voted Alison the top female reporter in southern New England for two years in a row and best TV Morning News anchor every year since. Alison has received many honors for her journalism work, including: an Emmy Award, an Edward R. Murrow Award, two Associated Press Awards, a Gracie Allen Award, an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, and two Clarion Awards. Alison graduated on the Dean's list from Harvard University in 2015 with a master's degree in English. Before that she graduated with honors from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and earned her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. In her free time, Alison enjoys teaching yoga at her studio (Shri Studio) and running its non-profit organization (Shri Service Corps), which she founded in 2012. Shri provides free yoga outreach programs for adults living with developmental disabilities, veterans, children in schools and shelters, seniors and more. For her work at Shri, Alison has received many community recognitions including the 2020 Myra Kraft MVP award from the New England Patriots Foundation. In 2014, with her husband, Alison started a nut-free snack line (Shri Bark: a karma-packed snack) to help fund these free yoga outreach programs and to provide more local options for healthy snacks in free and reduced breakfast programs in New England schools. Alison currently serves on the board of the Boys and Girls Club of Pawtucket.