Dana Visse Ribner is an urban planner specializing in publications design, communications, environmental planning, and project management. Currently, Dana works on the regional planning effort for South Louisiana called "Louisiana Speaks: Our Voice. Our Plan. Our Future." For Louisiana Speaks, Dana facilitated the public workshop data input process and analysis. She also acted as a contributing writer toward a one-hour public outreach television program produced by Louisiana Public Broadcasting. She is currently helping write, design, and edit the Vision for the future of South Louisiana.

At FA, Dana led the complete design and production of the ForwardDallas! Vision and Comprehensive Plan, while also contributing writing and editing to the Environment Element and the Vision. Dana completed an implementation analysis of a proposed mixed-use overlay zone for the City of Rolling Hills Estates as part of the Southern California Association of Governments Blueprint Demonstration Projects. Starting as an intern in 2005, Dana has performed a diversity of tasks including creating public workshop materials and visuals, performing parking studies, building land use scenarios using GIS, and producing the Deseret Ranches of Florida Recommended Vision and Strategy for the Future.

Dana holds a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from Portland State University with specializations in land use and the environment, and a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara.