Alysa Ullman is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Citizenship Counts. From a very young age, Ms. Ullman was taught to value American citizenship and appreciate its benefits. To promote the importance of multi-generational citizenship programs, she co-founded Citizenship Counts in 2008 along with Gerda Weissmann Klein, who is a celebrated author, a Holocaust survivor, and a proud naturalized citizen. In 2007 Alysa was hired by K-12 education publisher, McDougal Littell (now Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) to author The Path to Citizenship, a curriculum that targets middle and high school students and focuses on the tenets of citizenship and the naturalization process. This innovative guide educates students on their rights and responsibilities as citizens and provides them with a unique opportunity to host an authentic naturalization ceremony at their school. The Path to Citizenship serves as Citizenship Counts' core curriculum and has been used in middle and high schools throughout the country.

In early 2006, Alysa started her own consulting company, Au Consulting, LLC. She has been employed by a variety of companies to manage an assortment of projects, ranging from education initiatives to corporate events. Prior to the creation of Au Consulting, LLC, Ms. Ullman worked for the Sydney Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG). She was selected to be on a media team of 17 individuals from around the world who interviewed all 11,000 athletes who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympic Games and authored their official biographies for the Games. Additionally, she worked as a Corporate Marketing Manager for Washington Sports & Entertainment, an umbrella organization that included (at the time) the Washington Wizards, Capitals and Mystics, the Georgetown Hoyas, and MCI Center (now Verizon Center).

In May 2011, Ms. Ullman was recognized as a Champion of Change, which is part of President Obama‘s Winning the Future initiative. Alysa‘s efforts with Citizenship Counts were highlighted as one of the top innovative educational programs in the field of immigrant integration. Her passion for travel and desire to learn has taken her to each and every one of the 50 states. She has a strong commitment to education and to community service, as evidenced by her leadership roles on several charitable committees and boards. Alysa is a graduate of the University of Michigan.