Donna has performed her work on WBEZ's Eight Forty-Eight, US99's Chicago Up Close, Printers Row Book Fair, the Chicago Humanities Festival as well as several local open mic's. Her pieces have been published in the Journal of Ordinary Thought, Fictionary, back2college.com, Salamander's Cove and WorldWit. She is a workshop leader and intern for the Neighborhood Writing Alliance, has lead workshops for Literacy Volunteers of Illinois, and she conducts creative writing therapy workshops with Alzheimer's victims.

Donna is presently putting the final touches on a poetry manuscript titled, The Ravings of a Sagittarian Woman-Child and a compilation of short stories based on true events titled, Chi-Town Shadows. Her main emphasis is an academic study researching the cultural changes of mothers with incarcerated sons, which she plans to adapt to a documentary upon completion. She is a volunteer crisis line worker for Between Friends, a local domestic violence referral agency and is working on her own story of dv survival. She has recently submitted a full book proposal for Sister Soldiers - Life After Hell: Speaking Out Twentysome Years After Abuse.

Her future plans are to complete her Bachelors and continue graduate school in Anthropology and then on to a Doctorate in Philosophy after spending a few years teaching English abroad. She hopes to begin a re-entry program with emphasis on the arts and humanities, which will include writing workshops and theater involvement for the released offenders, concentrating on the age group between 17 and 25, as well as a support group for the mothers. Donna believes that recidivism depends on the building of social skills, which are taught and learned through the humanities.

In her spare time, Donna camps, hikes and spends every available minute with her six grandsons. She does web design and graphic arts to support her writing addiction and offers 50% discount to all artists.