About Debbie LeeKeenan (Edit profile)

Debbie LeeKeenan, M.Ed is Co-Director of Anti-Bias Leaders ECE. She has been in the field of early education for over 50 years. She was director at the Eliot-Pearson Children’s School, the laboratory school affiliated with the Tufts University Eliot Pearson Department of Child Study. She was also early childhood faculty at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA and the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and is a former preschool, special education and elementary school teacher. She is co-author of Leading Anti-bias Early Childhood Programs; A Guide to Change, for Change (Teachers College Press, 2023) and From Survive to Thrive: A Director’s Guide for Leading an Early Childhood Program (NAEYC, 2018) and a producer of the films, Reflecting on Anti-bias Education in Action: The Early Years, (2021) and Families Embracing Anti-Bias Values (2024).