Deb Evensen, MA

Deb Evensen, MA is a internationally-recognized FASD consultant, master teacher, and behavior specialist with more than 40 years’ experience teaching and developing programs for individuals with highly challenging behaviors. Her range of teaching experience includes students with cognitive impairments to those with highly gifted abilities in grades K-12, as well as adult life. She worked with her first student with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in 1982 and has been a pioneer in discovering practical solutions that work for individuals with FASD. She has the unique perspective of one who has spent thousands of hours helping to develop programs and problem solve solutions for children, adolescents and adults with FASD in schools and communities throughout Alaska, United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, and the Ukraine. Through the years Deb, has received many awards and was the inaugural recipient of Alaska’s “Vision, Leadership, and Commitment to Fetal Alcohol Syndrome” in 2001.In 2016, Deb is working on projects in Alaska, Canada, and the lower 48. She is the consultant working with the first school districts in North America attempting to improve their capacity to deal with the challenges of students with FASD in every grade level and every program: Anchorage School District and the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District. Deb is driven by the belief that the Alaskan frontier spirit and attitude provides an opportunity for us to solve the extreme challenges of FASD at a grassroots level that may appear unsolvable from a greater distance. She believes that by working together to serve people living with FASD today, we are working toward a future where this disability no longer exists.