She earned both her Doctoral and Master's degrees from New York University, where she is an ongoing supervisor and mentor for training clinicians and mental health professionals. Through her work with hundreds of parents and teens, Dana has become a passionate advocate of social and emotional learning and their ongoing integration in progressive education. She regularly lectures and provides parenting seminars at NYC academic and learning institutions such as Horace Mann, Dalton, the JCC of Manhattan, and the NYU Child Study Center. Dana is frequently interviewed about parenting and has been quoted in publications such as Working Mother, Real Simple, Parents, and Huffington Post. Currently, she is authoring a book on academic pressures, achievement, and character-based education.