Deemed "the woman who helped start the waste-free movement" by Consumer Reports, Dana helps train, inspire, and strategize around food waste reduction via her business Next Course (www.nextcourse.co). Previously, she founded NRDC's initiative to reduce food waste, authored Waste Free Kitchen Handbook, has testified in Congress, been an expert witness, and is behind the Save the Food campaign, a national media campaign that has generated over $70M in donated media to date. Her work on food waste has been featured by John Oliver, CNN, NPR, NBC, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Real Simple, Cooking Light, Dr. Oz, Consumer Reports, and hundreds of other outlets.

In 2012, Dana authored a landmark report “Wasted: How America is Losing Up to 40% of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill” that sparked a national dialogue about reducing food waste. From that, she went on to found and lead the Natural Resource Defense Council's work on reducing food waste until early 2018, when she started Next Course. When not worrying about it professionally, Dana spends far too much time trying to get her small children to throw less food on the floor.