Debra joined the Duke CE Signature Solutions team in November 2007 after gaining more than 10 years of meeting/event planning experience for education, government, non-profit and corporate institutions.
Most recently, she was a program manager for Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, where she was responsible for developing and executing all logistics for non-degree executive education programs. Debra also performed a similar role at Cisco Systems.
Before coming to the Research Triangle Park, Debra managed corporate events at Mana, Allison & Associates and Lyon-Martin Women's Health Services in San Francisco, CA.
She graduated from San Jose State University with a B.S. degree in hospitality management.