Dona graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder, studying photography and creative writing. She is the owner of Laurita Fotografia, a photography studio which specializes in documentary photography and has recently created Cassa da Vita -"box of life" - an ongoing project which crafts individual life stories captured in various forms: books, music CD’s, film/video and photography creating one of a kind ancestral pieces. Dona has been the photographer for Naropa University for nearly a decade, exclusively photographing the Dalai Lama in 1997. She has been involved in collaborative projects with the Boulder Sister Cities involving Lhasa, Tibet, and Jalapa, Nicaragua, where she has helped to further the understanding of life beyond language and cultural barriers through a visual medium. Dona's artist residencies have included elementary schools throughout the state of Colorado and at Children's Hospital Medical Day Treatment Program. Her workshops weave together photography and other forms of visual art as well as creative writing. She encourages children to begin to "see" what already exists within and around them and facilitates their expression of their impressions, intuition, and imagination through visual and written mediums.
Dona graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder, studying photography and creative writing. She is the owner of Laurita Fotografia, a photography studio which specializes in documentary photography and has recently created Cassa da Vita -"box of life" - an ongoing project which crafts individual life stories captured in various forms: books, music CD’s, film/video and photography creating one of a kind ancestral pieces. Dona has been the photographer for Naropa University for nearly a decade, exclusively photographing the Dalai Lama in 1997. She has been involved in collaborative projects with the Boulder Sister Cities involving Lhasa, Tibet, and Jalapa, Nicaragua, where she has helped to further the understanding of life beyond language and cultural barriers through a visual medium. Dona's artist residencies have included elementary schools throughout the state of Colorado and at Children's Hospital Medical Day Treatment Program. Her workshops weave together photography and other forms of visual art as well as creative writing. She encourages children to begin to "see" what already exists within and around them and facilitates their expression of their impressions, intuition, and imagination through visual and written mediums.