In high school, Dana Forrest was the girl rocking the "weird and different" kicks; definitely not the same shoes as the rest of the crowd. Little did she know that love for footwear would become a career.
As a footwear developer at Brooks Sports, Dana works with departments across the company to develop high-performance running shoes. She works with designers to engineer their 2D drawings, she helps the color and merchandising team find materials and treatments that are trendy and fashionable and she helps the biomechanics team make sure the shoes are performing better than the competition. But the best part? Seeing people like you on the street wearing the shoe she helped create. "I immediately start reminiscing of all of the challenges and things I learned while working on that product," she says, "and it feels so cool seeing that someone actively chose it."