Donna is a savvy, IABC-accredited business communicator, master strategist, and certified sustainability and CSR practitioner. She's a rainmaker and a water sector communication expert. Businesses hire Donna to re-engineer the way they communicate. She is Who the CEO Calls.™

She has served in senior roles for UNICEF/Sanitation and Water for All, World Bank, United Nations, USAID-funded projects, USEPA, the Architect of the Capitol, and USIA/State Department. She was Sr. Communication Officer at the UN Economic Commission for Africa - Secretariat working with the Undersecretary General.

Recently, she was Public Affairs Director and Director of Science Communication at USEPA's Office of Research and Development, where she wrote the multiple award-winning Communication Strategy and Brand and Visual Identity Guidelines.

The 2011 recipient of the AWC-DC Matrix Award for professional achievements in global communication and 2011 winner of three IABC Silver Inkwell Awards, Donna was the keynote speaker at the first graduating class of social marketers in Peru, has presented on communication at the British Medical Association, and was a US Treasury Department-designated researcher who conducted research in Almaty, Kazakstan for the first redesign of the $100 bill.

Donna is past president of the largest US IABC chapter and has a PhD in Communication. She is a former Rockville Environment Commissioner, is LEED GA trained, and has served as an IABC Gold Quill and PRWeek Awards Judge. She was also a 2010 and 2011 WWPR Woman of the Year of Award finalist.

In 2012, she published The Ultimate To Do List When Your Loved One Dies: Before & After the Funeral, 164-page book available on Amazon.com and other booksellers. Donna started her journalism career writing obituary notices for the Beaumont Enterprise newspaper's Lake Charles, Louisiana bureau.