Dana is a labor and delivery nurse and educator with 15 years of experience. She is a certified breastfeeding counselor through Prepared Childbirth Educators. She holds national board certifications in Inpatient Obstetrics, Obstetric & Neonatal Quality and Safety and Electronic Fetal Monitoring. Dana is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at DePaul University, where she has taught since 2015. At DePaul University, she serves on the Undergraduate Admissions and Scholarship Committee for the School of Nursing.  She received her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre with a concentration in Acting and Directing from DePaul University in 2005 and a Master of Science in Nursing from Rush University in 2010.  She is currently pursuing advanced perinatal mental health certification from Postpartum Support International. 

In 2021, Dana was chosen to serve a two-year term on Congresswoman Lauren Underwood’s Congressional Healthcare Advisory Council. Serving on the council brought countless opportunities to use her women’s health background to help improve the health of families & communities at a policy level.

Dana is the Secretary of the Executive Board of Steel Beam Theatre in St Charles, dedicated to enriching the community through the performing arts. 

Outside her professional life, Dana loves traveling with her family, theatre, reading, walks along the Fox, time in nature, photography and sending greeting cards (a lost art).

While education, community activism and nursing are so meaningful to Dana and her life’s path, her most cherished work is being a mom to her sons, Rowan and Bodhi.