Allison has spent most of her life in the DC Metro Area. Born and raised in Silver Spring, she kept her feet planted in the area and moved to DC after graduating from college in Philadelphia. She loves the district but lives vicariously through her friends who decide to take big steps outside of DC. Allison’s educational background is in social work but spends her free time immersed in music. Allison expresses her self through the venues of music, photography, cooking, and drawing. Always up for a new adventure Allison can be found bouncing her way threw the DC music scene, but always prefers a home grown house party. Her buddhist practice is very important to her, so you’ll find her half the time at the Soka Gakkai International Cultural Center.

After spending years dabbling in the music industry, Christine Doelling has found her calling in event curation, promotions and marketing. As a firm believer that “sleep is a cousin to death”, when she is not tackling e-marketing for National Geographic, rest assured you will find her busy with her hands in everything, from consulting to breaking a sweat at her monthly afro-beat parties. In January of 2009, Christine co-created Lunchbox Theory Productions with a mission to “rid the environment of all wackness by bringing you parties from the heart and music for your soul”. It is of this mission that Afro-Beat For Your Soul was born; a monthly celebration of Afro-beat music, which recently received praise from the Washington Post, calling it “one of the coolest underground events in town entirely devoted to the music”. Her ties to Africa reach back as far as 2006 when the Bay Area native began traveling to the continent in search diasporic sounds. Although her musical taste spans from McCartney to Jay-z, African music continues to intrigue her. Her eclectic taste can be experienced daily at Lunchboxtheory.com, the blog aspect of Lunchbox Theory Productions. While simultaneously working to further the success of her blog and events, Miss Doelling is working to incorporate a full service consulting firm in to Lunchbox theory. Although Christine has not been on the scene for very long, this 24 year old is rapidly proving herself as a force to be reckoned with.