[2][9] Rockefeller has served as the first alumna board chair of the Student Conservation Association;[10] she has served as a Commission Member for the New York State Department of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation under four governors; and she is a longtime board member of the Central Park Conservancy's Women Committee.
[3][9] Rockefeller's most recent work includes an effort to add information about citizen ownership of our national parks and public lands to the U.S. citizenship exam, introducing new immigrants to American environmental stewardship; and co-authoring Ten Principles on Conservation, a campaign aimed at reducing severe public partisanship over the environment by emphasizing common values.
In March 2013, Rockefeller was a speaker at the Environmental Protection Agency's Women In The Environment Summit hosted by the White House.
Allison Whipple Rockefeller was a 2009 Honoree of the Horticultural Society of New York's Award of Excellence at their annual Fall Luncheon.
On December 20, 1987, Whipple married Peter Clark Rockefeller at the All Saints Chapel of the Trinity-Pawling School in Pawling, New York.