Dana played a variety of sports in junior high and high school. She loves all sports and is an avid runner, having successfully competed in several races including a triathlon and a marathon. Dana received her B.S. degree in kinesiology from Wheaton College and her M.A. in exercise physiology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. At The Livingstone Corporation (a company that partners with Christian publishers to produce Bibles, books, Bible studies, curricula, and other resources), Dana managed and contributed to many resources, including the Legacy Bible, Lose It for Life, and iStand—the Power of Courageous Choices. Recently, she and her dad wrote the Sports Trivia Devotional. Dana, her husband, Walter, and young son, Edmund, live in Oswego, Illinois.