Debbie Henney

Debbie Henney is an economics professor and director of the Center for Economic Education at Mesa Community College in Mesa, Arizona. She is also the Curriculum Director for the Foundation for Teaching Economics. An economic educator for 22 years, she spent the first 10 years of her career teaching economics in the high school classroom. Her work with teachers began in 2006 as a Master Teacher for the Arizona Council on Economic Education and Mentor Teacher with the Foundation for Teaching Economics. Debbie has since had opportunities to serve as Executive Director of the Arizona Council on Economic Education and President of the Arizona Council for the Social Studies. Debbie loves teaching economics! Outside of the community college classroom she feeds her passion for economic literacy by writing lessons and curriculum units for the economics classroom and presenting programs, workshops and in-service trainings for schools, teachers and students around the world.