Deborah graduated in 2022 from the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia, where she received several awards including the Panvini Scholarship in Law and the Rosina and Gabriel Iacobucci Prize. Among other commitments, Deborah served as an editor-in-chief of the UBC Law Review and as a student caseworker for the Innocence Project.

She summered at Blakes in 2021 and clerked for six judges at the Supreme Court of British Columbia for a year after finishing law school.

Prior to law school, Deborah graduated magna cum laude from New York University, where she received the Founders Day Award for academic achievement.