Senior Trader

Dana grew up on the East Coast in Philadelphia, PA. At 17, she migrated west to Montana, where she studied Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management at the University of Montana. While in school, Dana first entered the coffee world working as a barista in Missoula. In 2008, she went back to school to pursue a Master’s degree in International Conservation and Development in conjunction with Peace Corps service in El Salvador. There, she spent a little over two years on a rural coffee farm, where she wrote her thesis on the Sustainability of the Salvadoran Coffee Trade.

In 2012, she returned back to the U.S. to work with Zoka Coffee Roasters in Seattle as a Green Buyer and Assistant Roaster before moving back to El Salvador in 2014 to manage Quality Control and Commercial Sales for Cuatro M Cafes. There, she gained a great wealth of knowledge about processing, milling, and exporting of green coffee. Dana returned to Seattle in February of 2016, excited to be back in America and ready to lay down some roots in the PNW and maybe buy a mini horse.

When not at Atlas, she loves yoga and skiing, indoor and outdoor gardening, jazz, and organizing her friends’ closets.