Dana Chesla is Women in Government’s Graduate Health Policy Fellow for Rheumatoid Arthritis. She graduated from the University of Michigan in 2009 with a degree in Political Science and Spanish. She will be pursuing a MPH at The School of Public Health and Human Services at The George Washington University in the Health Policy Department in the fall. Prior to joining Women in Government, Dana worked for the Planned Parenthood Federation and Upward Bound, a Federal TRIO Program, intended to prepare students for success in college.