The Harvard Debate Council and its partner organization, Harvard Debate, Inc., are directed and managed by these individuals:
Tripp Rebrovick, PhD, has been the Coach of Debate at Harvard College and Director of the Harvard Debate Council since 2017. He received and AB from Harvard College in 2009 and a PhD in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University in 2016.
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Jazmine Pickens is the Assistant Director of the Harvard Debate Council. She has been a coach at the HDC since 2019 after graduating from the University of Oklahoma and became the Assistant Director in January 2023.
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LaTonya Starks is the Assistant Director of Administration and Assistant Coach at the Harvard Debate Council. She joined the Harvard Debate Council in 2024 after a long and distinguished coaching career at Northwestern University.
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In addition, the Harvard Debate Council has Assistant Coaches of Debate to assist our students in debate competitions throughout the year. For 2024-2025, they include:
Kenji Aoki ’22
Corey Fisher
Youngmin Kwon, Ph.D.
Rishi Mukherjee
Oge Ogbogu ’24
Jimin Park
Aaron Timmons
Simon Weiss
Ed Williams