Coaching Staff

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 graduated from Harvard College in 2009 and earned a PhD in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University in 2016.

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Jazmine PickensĀ 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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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