About MDUDL

WHO WE ARE

OUR MISSION

The mission of The Miami-Dade Urban Debate League (MDUDL) is to empower youth through competitive academic debate to become active learners, critical thinkers, and engaged global citizens who are honest and effective advocates for themselves and their communities.

Focusing on teamwork, advocacy, cooperative learning, academic excellence, critical reflection and individual student growth, we hope to provide tools that young people can use to ignite platforms towards global change.

OUr LEAGUE:

The Miami-Dade Urban Debate league hosts programming for students from over 20 middle and high schools throughout the county.

Middle Schools

Horace Mann

Brownsville

Georgia Jones-Ayers

Jose de Diego

Edison Park

Carol City

Cutler Bay

Redland

Homestead

North Miami

High Schools

Young Men's Prep

Miami Central

Miami Northwestern

Edison Senior

Miami Jackson

Miami Senior

Booker T. Washington

SLAM

ITech

American Senior

Miami Carol

Norland

North Miami Beach

Miami Southridge

South Dade Senior

Homestead

OUR STAFF:

Program Director:

Cydney Edwards

Cydney Edwards is an alumna of the Chicago Debate League and participated in policy debate for four years in high school under head coach Bill Colson. Her debate career spans more than a full decade. After attending college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she served as Program Officer of School Support for The Chicago Debate Commission for 3 years under the leadership of Les Lynn, Edie Canter and David Song. She also worked briefly in Silicon Valley's debate scene with the UDL as well as expanding into Public Forum and Lincoln Douglas styles as a coach with a for-profit organization, Communication Academy. She is best suited to help the MDUDL focus on achieving specific programmatic goals as well as student learning, recruitment and retention.