For most of her life, Allie has been an active volunteer and advocate for homeless animals. In 2000, she co-founded Friends of Ingham County Animal Shelter in Lansing, Michigan, an organization that increased the adoption/rescue rate of cats and dogs at the animal shelter by 400% in 2 years, and led the advocacy effort to successfully ban pound seizure at the shelter in 2003. With that successful result, all remaining shelters in Michigan banned the practice of pound seizure over the next decade. Since 2003 she has volunteered for King Street Cats in Alexandria, VA and organizes the cat transfer program with the St. Croix Animal Welfare Center. After visiting the island of St. Croix in January 2009 to train at an animal welfare conference, and seeing the pet overpopulation epidemic and the need for mainland transfers and adoptions, she has helped about 100 St. Croix cats travel to Virginia to be adopted through King Street Cats.

 Allie believes that animals, like humans, must be made whole after they experience abuse or neglect. In 2011, she started a business called Manifested Harmony where she teaches energy healing and essential oil classes and offers wellness consultations for for people and animals. Allie is a Certified Usui Reiki Master-Teacher, Certified Integrated Energy Therapy Master-Instructor, Advanced Crystal Master Teacher, and uses pet-safe Young Living essential oils. Because of her expertise in essential oils for shelter and rescue animals, Allie was invited to speak at Young Living’s Animals & Oils Conference in Utah in 2017 and 2018.