 Davenny-Wyner studied at Yale and Columbia University and received conducting fellowships for study at the Tanglewood Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute.Since, she has had conducting positions at the New England Conservatory, at the Cleveland Institute of Music, at Wellesley College and Cornell University where she had once studied, at Brandeis University.In 1998, she was the Assistant Conductor at Chicago's Grant Park Music Festival, a position that was created especially for her.