After graduation from Ryerson (Toronto Metropolitan) University in Toronto in Media Arts, Dona began her film editing career cutting for The Discovery Channel; a mini-series on the Ocean and Climate Change. Soon after, Dona moved to Los Angeles and worked as an assistant editor on The Mask of Zorro and while there was hired to go to Vancouver to edit Ninja Turtles, The Next Mutation and The New Addams Family. Dona made her home in Vancouver for the next 4 years and edited for Fox Family Channel, Lifetime, ABC Family and Disney. In 1998 Dona cut her first feature called Dangerous Attraction and it was nominated and won a Leo Award. In 2000 Dona edited Screech Owl a tween show that was nominated for a DGC Award. In 2003 Dona edited a pilot for MGM Studios called Dead like Me, which was nominated for an Emmy and became a cult hit. In 2003 Dona moved back to Toronto and edited The Great Polar Bear Adventure that consisted of 900 hours of stock shots of wild polar bears in the arctic. Dona created OTS shots, W.S.and E.C.U shots of wild polar bears mouths animated to appear like they were speaking with one another or to a sympathetic fox. "In this show you had to think out of the box to create the emotional moments scripted" The Great Polar Bear Adventure was nominated for a Daytime Emmy. The Jane Show was also nominated for a DGC award as well as the Good Witch Family, for a CCE award. In 2016 Hello It's Me was nominated for a CCE and DGC award. Dona edited 5 seasons of The Good Witch, which was Hallmark #1 show. In 2019 Dona edited The Marijuana Chronicles, for Amazon when a group a women in 1972 are used in a clinical study to investigate the side effects of extreme high level THC in marijuana use. In 2022 Dona edited the Accused, an Anthology Series created by Howard Gordon that is set to be released on Fox TV/ Sony in January 2023.