Deborah Keen, Plano, won the American Lawyers Alliance Teacher of the Year Award at the national level for her passion and innovation in law education. Deborah has taught in the Career and Technical Education Center for Frisco ISD since 2012. She helped open Vandeventer Middle School in 2012 and founded the Youth Safety and Civility Alliance (YSCA), a nonprofit that promotes participation in civil conversations, conflict resolution and situational awareness, in 2018. She also was the Texas Lawyers Auxiliary 2015 Texas Teacher of the Year.