Donna MacDonald, a RI native, started dancing at a very young age, fell in love with it and continued that passion her whole life. 

She graduated from Dean College as a dance major and  is also a member of the Dance Teacher’s Club of Boston. 

She started working straight out of college with Current Dance Company of Massachusetts, performing ballet and contemporary dance. After 3 years, she ventured to New York City landing a job with Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus as a dancer. She performed with them for the next 4 years all over the country. Not only did she perform many genres of dance, but participated in many PR events, backstage tours, handled an elephant and other animals in the pre-show and during animal walk, and helped to set up electric and lighting for ring 3.

She returned to RI, took an EMT course, which in turn lead her to test for the Providence Fire Department. She was a part of the departments Honor Guard, Peer Fitness Program, Critical Stress Debriefing Team and Firefighter Combat Challenge Team. She was a firefighter for fifteen years, until occupational bone cancer forced her to retire. She found the Firefighter Cancer support Network, was the RI State Director, Vice President East and is now the Chairman of Female Firefighters with Cancer, working on research for women firefighters, teaching and speaking all around the country.

During those fifteen years, she danced professionally with Fountain Street Creative, performing all over New England on her days off from the fire department. She was also in a Burlesque and Belly dance troupe performing around RI.

She now resides in Vero Beach, FL, where she is a personal trainer, dance instructor, and of course continues to perform with a cancer survivor troupe.