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Dona J. Young

Dona Young is president of Writer's Toolkit Publishing LLC and Writer's Toolkit Trainings. As a teacher and facilitator, Dona has a passion for making learning exciting and relevant. For the past fifteen years, she has been facilitating writing programs at major corporations. Prior to that, Dona was the director of general education at Robert Morris College, Chicago.

Dona has been a speaker at conferences and conducted numerous training programs throughout the country. She holds a B.A. from Northern Illinois University and an M.A. from The University of Chicago. Dona also earned a certificate from The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, which enables her to work with the emotional aspects of learning. Dona is the author of Foundations of Business Communications, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2006, and Business English: Writing for the Global Workplace, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2008, and A Brief Guide to the Mechanics of Writing, Writer's Toolkit Publishing, 2008.

Dona considers herself a life-long learner, believing that who we become is a result of what we learn. Beyond that, her dog Reggie keeps her from taking work, or life, too seriously.

 

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