Donnalee Donaldson is a native of Montego Bay, Jamaica.  In 2009, she graduated cum laude from Seton Hall University in New Jersey, with a Bachelor of Arts in English (Honors) and Social and Behavioral Sciences. At Seton Hall, Donnalee presided over the University's Gospel Choir, worked as a News Writer for The Setonian, served on the boards of the West Indian Student Organization and International Students Association and worked as a writing tutor. She was a four-year recipient of the Regent's Scholarship and received a presidential award for her commitment to community service.

Currently, Donnalee is in her third year at the Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a member of the Emory Moot Court Society and has held leadership roles in the Emory Public Interest Committee and Black Law Students Association. She is a proud recipient of Emory's prestigious Woodruff Fellowship. As a Senior Editor on the SRBLSA Law Journal, Donnalee published Can We Stop the Madness? Finding Solutions to Housing Crisis Facing the Mentally Ill.

Donnalee's primary interests lie in litigation and public health law. Her legal experience includes internships at: the New York City Department of Health, the American Civil Liberties Union-New Jersey, the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, the Atlanta Legal Aid Society - Health Law Unit, and the New York City Law Department. In her final year of law school, she is interning at the Dekalb County Public Defender's Office and has been authorized to represent clients under the Third Year Practice Act.  Upon completion of her legal studies, Donnalee plans to join the New York City Law Department as an Assistant Corporation Counsel.

As the 2011-2012 Editor-in-Chief, Donnalee will continue the Journal's tradition of excellence, as she lives by the Aristotelian mantra " We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."