As a LEED Accredited Professional, Dana has found her professional work to follow principles of building efficiency, reuse of materials and creative integration of renewable energy systems. Dana had the opportunity to work closely with builders on the adaptive reuse of an old mill building along the Woonsocket River while with Truthbox Architects in Providence, Rhode Island. With Rowland+Broughton since 2008 she has worked on numerous renovations including residential, hospitality and commercial spaces and has been involved with the preparation and presentation of three high profile, public process projects in the Roaring Fork Valley.

Dana was raised in Connecticut and moved to Western Massachusetts to attend Mount Holyoke College. While earning her BA in Spatial Studies (dance, architecture, physics, and theory) she spent time at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, a semester in Copenhagen, Denmark studying architecture, and a summer interning with a landscape architecture firm in London, England. Dana continued her education with a semester at the Ecosa Institute in Prescott, Arizona where she learned about sustainable building materials and ecological design.

She earned a Masters of Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design where she was editor of an architecture publication Works in Progress, a studio teaching assistant, and a mentored teacher of the collegiate course Degrees of Freedom, a design and renewable energy survey. Dana spent time studying and designing in Detroit and the Mezzogiorno in Italy. Dana completed her thesis for a transportation center in Ferzaj, Kosovo and entered the United Nations Habitat competition for the project. She graduated with honors and earned the Alpha Rho Chi medal for professional leadership.

She now resides in Carbondale where she serves on the Historic Preservation Commission, works with the Mt. Sopris Historical Society and is active in an assortment of volunteer activities with young women.

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