Debbie Henney teaches Economics at Mesa Community College in Mesa, Arizona. She began presenting programs as a Mentor Teacher for the Foundation for Teaching Economics in 2006 and is currently the Director of Curriculum for the FTE programs: Economics for Leaders and Economic Forces in American History. Debbie spent the first ten years of her career teaching economics in the high school classroom and later championed economic education efforts as Executive Director of the Arizona Council on Economic Education and President of the Arizona Council for the Social Studies. She has written several economic education lessons for the k-12 classroom and regularly presents workshops, in-service trainings, and week-long residential programs for schools and teachers in Arizona and around the country.