Deborah Zalesne is a tenured professor of law at the City University of New York School of Law where she teaches in the areas of contract, corporate, and commercial law. She earned a B.A. degree from Williams College, a J.D. from the University of Denver College of Law, and an LL.M. from Temple Law School, where she was an Honorable Abraham L. Freedman Fellow. Prior to teaching, she practiced law with a firm in Denver, Colorado, and clerked for Colorado Supreme Court Justice Gregory K. Scott. She is a member of the boards of Beyond the 11th, a charitable organization devoted to supporting disenfranchised widows in Afghanistan, and Iris House, a community-based organization that serves women infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. She has published numerous articles on sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and poverty law. Her current scholarship focuses on pedagogy and learning theory and she is co-writing a book, forthcoming with Carolina Academic Press, entitled, “TEACHING TO EVERY STUDENT: EXPLICITLY INTEGRATING SKILLS AND THEORY INTO THE CONTRACTS CLASS.”