She has worked with Brandeis University as an instructional designer and research librarian and has served as a consultant to Tufts University, Facing History and Ourselves, the University of California Santa Barbara, Harvard University, and the U.S. Department of Education on issues relating to online learning, technology integration, learning tools and objects, web design and usability, Universal Design for Learning, and online learning communities.

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Leslie is the author of numerous articles and five books including her most recent: Building Back Truth in an Age of Misinformation, Rowman & Littlefield, 2023, and Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth, Rowman & Littlefield 2015. She co–authored the U.S. Educational Technology Market: PreK–12 report for the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) and Games for a Digital Age: K–12 Market Map and Investment Analysis with John Richards and Kurt Moellering for the Cooney Center sponsored by the Gates Foundation. Leslie has an M.Ed. from the Technology Innovation & Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Master's in Information Science from Simmons College. She received a B.A. in Psychology and Political Science from the University of Michigan. For more please see: lesliestebbins.com. 

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