Leading with Debate: Let Your Voice Ring Out
2 September 2011
The Bay Area Debate League is proud to announce a new addition to our growing family: the Leading with Debate Fellowship (LDF).
This is a place where young people can build the skills to make change, the skills to become the leaders we need for our communities - and use their passion and energy to bring politics back to life for adults who have become disconnected.
The members of the LDF will be on the cutting edge of the BAUDL’s engagement with the communities around it, conducting research into the most important issues facing these communities and presenting their findings in the form of electrifying public debates.
On a weekly basis, LDF members from San Francisco and the East Bay will meet together, working with BAUDL staff and volunteers on skill-building and gaining knowledge about the political systems around them.
Why we are doing this - and how you can help
The aim is to create a core of students ready to make the most of what makes debate special - the ability to see multiple sides of complicated issues, the grounding in rigorous research, and the excitement of competition - in order to energize and edify the cities of the Bay Area. In the process, by demonstrating their skillls in public events and the media and by reaching out to peers on their own campuses, these young people will shift expectations of Bay Area youth.
We are looking for partners at all stages of the work of the LDF - from helping us identify key issues for discussion, to working with our amazing debaters, to helping produce public events that make a real impact on audiences.
The LDF Launches on September 20. Please get in touch with Executive Director Dmitri Seals at dseals@baudl.org or 510-517-0069 for more information.
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