Dena has successfully built and run multiple entertainment companies, inside the studio system and independently. She is a contributing writer to beautyandstyle.com, homeandgardenideas,com, AND Magazine, and dogift.com. She was hired to write and direct a feature documentary for Anthem Media Group, and was recently hired to write a screenplay from a true crime story for Naroyan Productions. She has completed ghostwriting 3 books in the past 12 months. She is also a premiere corporate consultant, providing strategy and growth consultation for multinational companies such as Karrass and Tele-presence Research. She attended Stanford University (BA, MFA), serves on the Board of Directors for Stanford in Entertainment, and was named a 2009 Stanton Scholar and artist representative for The Aspen Institute's Socrates program on business and governement relations.