Donna is a Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner (CPRP), Certified Peer Specialist (CPS), and person with lived experience with mental health and trauma issues.  Donna has worked in the mental health recovery field since 1992.  Donna was a 2008 Eli Lilly Reintegration Award recipient for Mentorship.  She is currently the Director of Employee Services at the Kiva Centers and is a trained WRAP facilitator and Human Rights Advocate.  Donna is a firm believer in “nothing about us without us.”

Donna’s favorite authors are Jane Austen and Deanna Cassidy, and she likes to spend time with her 5 grandchildren, read, cook, figure out crossword puzzles, and binge watch British Period Dramas (Downton Abbey, Upstairs/Downstairs) and Agatha Christie murder mysteries (Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot), and occasionally a really bad monster movie (such as Tremors and Sharknado).