5th Annual Diversity in Debate Conference

5th Annual Diversity in Debate Conference -- 2020 Version

The importance of diversity and equity has never been more important. As an opportunity to further community discussions, we are pleased to host the 5th Annual Diversity in Debate Conference on Tuesday, December 22nd. The focus for this conference is tournament equity practices, including training (pre-tournament) and committee practices to deal with equity and rules concerns (brought up during a tournament).

We will begin at 10:00am CST with short presentations and discussions with Nicole Wanzer-Serrano, Ed Lee, Cobin Szymanski, and Byron Arthur.

After lunch, we will break into working groups to discuss best practices. We plan to end by 5:00pm CST.

The conference is open to any coach and debater. To help us plan, please complete this short form.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfRFY1zAJ6m7vM59dDXutsWTcpcRvxhgAoz-oO1JF6KJmGfsw/viewform

We will provide a zoom link later for the actual conference which will be directly sent to those registered.

We hope you will join us for these important conversations and work.

Some working groups progress -- No perfect solutions here but lots of good thoughts and conversations

Working Group - Content warnings

Access discussion Group 

Tab room (rules and Equity) discussion group