Lori LeachmanLori Leachman is a professor of economics at Duke University. She has published over twenty articles in a variety of academic journals, and has presented her work at a variety of professional conferences such as the American Economic Association Meetngs, the Southern Economic Association Meetings, the Conference on Global Finance, and the Napa Valley Seminar. She has been interviewed on NPR and The State of Things. She has been in Who's Who of America's Teachers, won the 1995 Student Award for Teaching Excellence at Northern Arizona's College of Business, and won the Howard D. Johnson Teaching Award at Duke University in 2002/3. She is daughter of a football coach, and a Southerner by birth. She resides in Durham, NC. Read More Read Less