26 March 2025 1 minute read
Throughout her long-standing work with students, staff, and the greater Spelman College community, Dana Pride Jones’ passion has been consistently prevalent. Committed to nurturing and guiding young people as they navigate their way through their Spelman experience and life, Dana has been employed at Spelman College for more than 36 years (1988-2025).
She has served the college community through several areas including the Human Resources Department, the Health Careers Program, Spelman’s Student Affairs Division, and the Ethel Waddell Githii Honors Program. She currently serves as the program coordinator for the Spelman College Women’s Research and Resource Center where she has worked since 2010.
Instrumental in assisting the founding director of the Women’s Center, faculty members, and students majoring in Comparative Women’s Studies, Jones manages four budgets and plans and implements events and special programs including staff and WRRC steering committee meetings, workshops, and conferences, book signings, film screenings, and more.
Through her service, she endeavors to build positive, harmonious relationships within the Women’s Center, the Spelman College community, and the College's external constituents. Professional, poised, organized, detail-oriented, and approachable, she exudes authentic interest through her work with such diverse groups of people.
Having begun her own collegiate experience with a major in human services at Spelman College, Jones began her matriculation with the Class of 1994 and is a Dr. Pauline E. Drake Scholar. She later changed her major to Comparative Women’s Studies and has utilized the education, experience, and activist training gained through her studies and work to continue to encourage and support young scholar-activists to develop incomparable life skills and momentum to continue moving towards their goals of addressing political and social justice matters that affect African American women and the African Diaspora.
Jones grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, where most of her family still resides. She relocated to the Atlanta area in 1987 from the Pacific Northwest area of Seattle, Washington, where she worked as a United States Federal Government employee. She enjoys traveling, spending quality time with her three grandchildren: Ava, Faith, and Westbrook, eating delicious seafood and soul food, gathering with her beloved PTA Sistahs and Cultural Enrichment and Literary Circle (CELC) book club members for laughter, good food, wine, and a lively book discussion.