She has worked at MidState Christian Academy as the yearbook advisor for four years and serves as the school nurse consultant. She became a Christian when she was eight years old while at Bible camp. She has been an active church member for thirty years, including working with music with children and adults. She was a bus captain of a bus ministry while a teenager and an AWANA leader with her husband, Sam. She is the church pianist at Meriden Hills Baptist Church and teaches Sunday school for fourth- through sixth-graders. Dawn lives in Connecticut with her husband, Sam, and their daughters, Amanda and Rebecca.