Dawna Stone
Dawna is the founder, president and publisher of Women's Running magazine. An Ironman finisher, she enjoys all sports but says her favorite is running after her 1-year-old Kaelie. Dawna frequently travels to speak to men and women across the nation about health and well-being. Dawna had an interesting career before founding Women's Running. At 33 she was the Chief Marketing Officer for a $700-million publicly traded company, directing the marketing activities for over 68 locations nationwide. Dawna's other experience includes:
- Senior Vice President of the Active Sports Network, then a 200-person dot com company that is still thriving today with over 300 employees
- President and General Manager of a $20-million sports nutrition company
- Strategy Consultant for Deloitte Consulting where she advised senior level executives at Fortune 500 companies
- Financial Analyst for Wall Street investment bank Morgan Stanley
Dawna earned her MBA at The Anderson School at UCLA and her B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Breanne George
Breanne George is the editor-in-chief of Women’s Running magazine. An energetic journalist with a passion for travel, Breanne has moved across the country (too many times!) to pursue a career as a magazine writer/editor for various national publications. Having lived in Ohio, New York City, Las Vegas and now Florida, Breanne loves to experience all the unique outdoor activities. She has hiked Red Rock Canyon near Las Vegas, ran on the trails alongside Lake Mead, climbed Camelback Mountain in Phoenix and jet skied off of Miami Beach and the Lake Erie Islands. Now that she resides in sunny Florida, Breanne loves to run alongside Tampa Bay and on the gulf beaches.
Melissa Mellert
Melissa Mellert is the Art Director for Women’s Running. She graduated from the Ringling School of Art and Design for Graphic Design and has worked for magazines including Visit Florida, Senses Arts and Culture and SRQ Magazine. Originally from upstate New York, she loves the warm Sarasota weather and beaches. Aside from being a big animal lover and longtime vegetarian she stays healthy and active playing soccer and running.
Michele Stone
Michele Stone is the director of marketing at Women's Running. Michele is a strong proponent of getting kids active and healthy, and she can be spotted almost daily at the soccer field, basketball court, or baseball field cheering on her daughter, Taylor and her son, Tyson.
Ellen Heise
Ellen Heise is the marketing manager at Women's Running. Although she is a Tampa native, Ellen has done her fair share of traveling including frequent trips to Colorado and even a stint living and studying overseas in Australia. She loves sea life and says if she weren't working at Women's Running, she would be rescuing whale sharks for a living.
Kelly Baker
Kelly Baker is the Circulation Manager at Women’s Running and the Race Operations Manager of The Women’s Half Marathon. She enjoys traveling to races all over the country to promote the magazine and The Women’s Half Marathon – and she loves getting to run in them, too! At home in Florida, Kelly shares her passion for outdoor activities with family and friends. Snorkeling, scuba diving, riding ATV’s, cheering on her son’s soccer team, and of course – running, tops her list of favorites.
Dorcas White
Dorcas White is the National Events Manager for Women’s Running and she is always on the run – literally! Dorcas travels to events all over the country to promote Women’s Running– she’s at a different race almost every weekend. And she runs them all, too! Dorcas fell in love with the sport in 6th grade and has completed more races than even she can count, including three Boston Marathons. She’ll be heading back to Boston for a 4th time in 2010 and is also planning a trip to Greece for the Athens Classic Marathon. Run, girl!Tiffany Connors is the assistant editor for . Since ditching the bustle of New York City for the heat of St. Petersburg, Fla., Connors has completed a 5k and 10k, and hopes to finish her first half-marathon by the end of the year. In addition to writing for HowStuffWorks, she is the television blog editor for the New York Post. Her hobbies include eating.
Jenn Weede
Jenn Weede is an editor-at-large for Women's Running. Jenn's need to be with nature led her to abandon her ambitious publishing career in Manhattan nine years ago in favor of sharing her passion for the outdoors. Stitches, casts, West Nile virus, giardia, altitude sickness-it's all part of the job, and well worth it to hike tundra in Iceland, heli-board the Rocky Mountains, surf in Baja and scale Spain's highest mountain. A freelance writer based in Crestone, Colorado, Weede has also covered the great outdoors for numerous national publications including Women's Health, National Geographic Adventure, Outside, Women Outside, Skiing and Ski Press.
