Alana is also a weekly columnist for Bizwomen.com and has been a contributor to Forbes.com, The Huffington Post, CNBC, and other publications and was a featured speaker at TEDxOverlandPark. She has a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Chicago, where she was the recipient of the Mike and Karen Herman Fellowship for Women in Entrepreneurship, and an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Smith College. She is actively engaged in the community and serves on a number of corporate and volunteer boards.