Deb Goodrich is the Garvey Texas Foundation Historian in Residence at the Fort Wallace Museum, Wallace, KS. She has co-hosted a syndicated weekly television show for over ten years and had a radio talk show prior to that. She is chair of the Santa Fe Trail 200, commemorated from 2021-2025. She serves on the boards of: The Kansas Cowboy Hall of Fame, Western Writers of America, and the Smoky Hill Trail Association. She previously served as president of the Civil War Roundtable of Eastern Kansas and the Kansas City Civil War Roundtable, and past board member of the Kansas Music Hall of Fame. She has spoken to hundreds of groups around the country on topics ranging from John Brown to the Lincolns to Jesse James. She has appeared as a talking head in numerous documentaries including: American Experience: Jesse James; Aftershock; AHC's Gunslinger Series on Wild Bill Hickok; The Road to Valhalla (winner of the Wrangler Award); and American Artist: George Caleb Bingham (winner of an Emmy).

She is co-writer and co-executive producer of The Contested Plains, a docudrama set in the American West in the 1870s. It is set for release in September 2022.