Diana Leyden, Clinical Professor, University of Connecticut School of Law. She joined the School of Law faculty in 1999 to create and teach one of the first Low Income Taxpayer Clinics. She holds a B.A. from Union College and an LLM in Taxation from Georgetown University. She clerked for Hon. Herbert Chabot, US Tax Court 1982-84. Prior to joining the faculty she was in private practice specializing in transactional tax planning and tax litigation in Boston and Washington DC and worked for tax revenue departments in Massachusetts and Connecticut. She is a frequent lecturer at the ABA Tax Section. She was the 2005 recipient of the ABA Tax Section Pro Bono Award. She served as the ABA Tax Section liaison to the Renaissance on Idealism of Legal Profession and served on the Blue Ribbon Commission to Study the Independence of the IRS Appeals Division. She has been invited to train IRS and National Taxpayer Advocate employees on how to work with low income taxpayers. She is also a former member of the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council and has testified before the IRS Oversight Board on recommendations for improvements in IRS customer service.