Mai Dao graduated from Hastings College
in June of 1982, with a B.A. degree in Business Administration with a concentration
in Accounting. While her husband Minh worked on his doctorate
at the University of Illinois, she worked
at several jobs there ranging from clerk typist to Accounting Technician.
From 1987 to 1998, she was at CCAR Industries as an Accounting Assistant and
then later as Accountant. Since then, she has been working as a budget analyst
in the Budget Office at Eastern Illinois
University.