DEBORAH J. LEVINE trains international executives to acculturate to the South. Her intercultural training with major manufacturing companies in the Southeast now includes online training for internationals and non-Southern Americans.  A pioneer in the field of Global Leadership training for teens, her book, Inspire Your Inner Global Leader, was field tested in Youth Global Leadership Classes co-taught with Volkswagen executives and is now available on Amazon.  

A Diversity Trainer & Educator:  Deborah provides diversity training to nonprofits, educational institutions, government agencies and corporations.  Her creative diversity training materials are used by companies and universities across the US.  She served as consultant to Southern Adventist University and is on the Advisory Board of Women’s Studies at UTC.  She has lectured at Elmhurst College, University of Tulsa, Hebrew Union College and University of TN at Chattanooga and public school districts in OK, IL, and TN.  A product of Harvard and New York University (NYU - BS, Cultural Anthropology), University of Illinois at Chicago (MA, Urban Planning & Policy) and Spertus Institute (MA, Jewish Studies), Deborah received research fellowships from UCLA and the American Jewish Archives.  She currently serves on the Diversity Advisory Board of Volkswagen Chattanooga.

An Award-winning Author:  Deborah’s writing spans decades of published articles appearing in The American Journal of Community Psychology, Journal of Public Management & Social Policy, Harvard Divinity School Bulletin, The Bermudian Magazine and The Christian Century.  She has a blog on The Huffington Post, had a weekly column as a community correspondent for The Chattanooga Times Free Press and is currently Editor-in-Chief of the American Diversity Report.  Her book, Teaching Christian Children about Judaism, received the education award from the Catholic National Press Association award in 1997. Her new 3-part series, Going Southern: The No-Mess Guide to Success in the South, will be out soon.

An Urban Cultural Planner:  Deborah specializes in creating organizations with local & global impact.  She founded the DuPage Interfaith Resource Network and the Women's Council on Diversity.  Having designed her Masters degree in Urban Planning to focus on Arts & Culture, she has consulted with government agencies at the municipal, county, state and federal levels. Deborah recently created the Youth Multicultural Video Contest judged by national & international judges from Hollywood to Australia.  The project is now sponsored by the City of Chattanooga Dept. of Education, Arts & Culture and its TN Film commission.  Deborah oversaw the research for a multi-million dollar cultural center for the North River Commission/City of Chicago and as a Jewish Federation executive director; Deborah oversaw the building of the Chattanooga area Jewish Cultural Center. 

Articles about Deborah’s community initiatives appeared in The Chicago Tribune, The Online Wall Street Journal, The Bermuda Royal Gazette, Hadassah Magazine and The Chattanooga Times Free Press. Deborah received the 'Excellence' award from the Tennessee Economic Council on Women and the ‘Unbought & Unbossed’ Award from Girls Inc./Chattanooga.