Debra Austin, PhD, JD |
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Debra Austin is a Lawyering Process Professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Her teaching and research are focused on lawyering skills, education policy, and how technology can be used to enhance teaching and learning. She teaches Lawyering Process and Advanced Legal Research. She is a co-investigator on a $1.2 million dollar ITEST grant awarded by the National Science Foundation to study interdisciplinary humane game development.
Debra consults with law firms and individual lawyers on lawyering skills. She consults with education institutions and teaches courses on technology-enhanced pedagogy and assessment; 21st century skill development; and technology leadership at DU's Morgridge College of Education. She received her Ph.D. in Education with an emphasis in Digital Media Studies from the University of Denver in 2004; her J.D. from the University of San Francisco in 1989; and her B.M.E. from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1982 (Music Education). She serves as a member of the Business Advisory Counsel for Martin Luther King Jr. Early College. She received the William T. Driscoll Master Educator Award in 2001.