She trained at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) while completing a Bachelor's degree in Modern Culture and Media at Brown University and went on to attend Harvard Law School. Debi practiced for more than a decade as a civil rights attorney representing the wrongly convicted. Her photographs examine the human experience of systemic injustice, trauma and transition; look to transcend simple labels of "perps" and "victims;" and explore the ways in which spaces reflect conflict and its aftermath.