Dalene is Emeritus in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Previously, she spent 25 years at Duke University serving as Director of the Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences and as Associate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies. She has held editorships for Journal of the American Statistical Association, The American Statistician, Bayesian Analysis, and Chance. She also co-edited two books, Bayesian Biostatistics and Meta-Analysis in Medicine and Health Policy. She has won numerous awards including ASA’s Youden Award for her research paper “Prediction and Decision Making Using Bayesian Hierarchical Models,” ASA Fellow for leadership in statistical education, outstanding contributions to research in health-related areas, and service to the profession, and Duke’s Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award. She served two terms as chair of the ASA’s Committee on Women in Statistics, launching the first Conference for Women in Statistics in 2014. Her MOOC, Teaching Statistical Thinking, was offered on Coursera starting in October of 2014. In 2019 she was awarded an ASA Founders’ Award.