
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.
OUR BOARD:



Richard A. Perez, Esq.
Partner, Holland & Knight
Board Co-Chair
Dale Reed
CEO, Merrimac Ventures
Board Treasurer
Osvaldo Garcia, Esq.
Executive Director,
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Board Co-Chair


Clifford Schulman, Esq
Partner, Weiss Serota Helfman Cike + Bierman, P.L.
Former President
David Steinberg
Director of Debate
University of Miami, School of Communications





Dr. Malou C. Harrison
Provost, Miami-Dade College
Ana Bierman
Asst. Dean, Florida International University College of Law
Coral del Mar Lopez
Shareholder, Stearns Weaver Miller
Brianna H. Sainte
Associate
Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP
Anta Plowden
Associate
White & Case LLP

Ian M. Ross, Esq
Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
