Dana Lee Rice
Dana co-founded and serves as the Chief Operating Officer of The Dapper Dean Education Empowerment Firm. The Dapper Dean attributes much of his academic success to Dana.

“I only studied for my GED and enrolled in college to impress her. I never believed that I would graduate. I simply wanted Dana to see that I tried to do something substantive,” he said during a recent interview at a local university. Dana is uniquely suited to manage the organization’s operations. Dana earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, with a major in Marketing, from Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business. She brings more than eleven years of experience in marketing and project management. Dana’s professional portfolio includes meaningful on-the-job training as a mid-level executive in corporate America, specifically at AT&T, Spinner Atlanta and Bank of America, respectively. Dana ably merges her experiences in higher education. She most recently served as the Assistant Athletic Director of External Operations at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri. Dana’s talent exceeds beyond marketing. She is a gifted singer who has sang professionally for more than twenty years. She was signed to a production company with The Corna Boyz where she worked with Grammy Award-winning producer, Rico Love.