| UPCOMING EVENT ON THE HISTORY CHANNEL®!! The final five Crusades were a failure for Christian Europe. Agree? Disagree? DEBATE!
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Austin Debate League World Wide Poetry Event!!! A MUST SEE!! The world wide poetry jam will be on November 22nd from 7:30-11:00 CST. Please contact Austin via our Expertise Locater to ask for more information about the upcoming poetry jam, and on how you can view in live via the web.
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| BUDL Director Honored As Social Entrepreneur Pam Spiliadis was one of four 2005 honorees selected by The B'MORE Fund with $5,000 award for her work with the Baltimore Urban Debate League. The B'MORE Fund (www.bmorefund.org) is a Giving Circle created by emerging leaders who are celebrating the work of social entrepreneurs in the region while at the same time becoming more informed about grantmaking, philanthropy, and the myriad of issues affecting our community. B'MORE Fund members are pooling resources and identifying, publicizing and celebrating individuals who, through their work, enrich the lives of Baltimore's residents. The B’MORE Fund recognizes these individuals and their work by honoring them with cash awards made once each year. Spiliadis was previously recognized in 2004 with a Harry and Jeannette Weinberg fellowship and continues to expand the presence of the urban debate in Baltimore. She will travel in her capacity as a Weinberg fellow to Hawaii to explore the potential of an increased presence for debate in that state. |
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STAFF
"The wisest man has something yet to learn." George Santayana
Will Baker, Executive Director
Will Baker - Will was tapped for ALOUD based on his twenty years of experience in nonprofit management, debate coaching, and marketing. He was a finalist in the Ford Foundation’s Leadership for a Changing World competition and is a past winner of the Paul Slappy Award for Diversity and the Barkley Forum Award for Distinguished Service. He is listed in the Marquis Who's Who in the World. Mr. Baker is the Chief Executive Officer of the IMPACT Coalition, an educational development nonprofit organization. His work with IMPACT has received accolades in the NY Times, US News & World Report, the Nonprofit Times and the Christian Science Monitor. As head of Baker Consulting Services International, he has provided management consulting services to major foundations, corporations, United Nations agencies and nearly one hundred nonprofit organizations. He is a Past President of the Committee of Religious Non-Governmental Organizations at the United Nations and serves as the Alternate UN Representative for the International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF). Will was elected president of the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA), the largest intercollegiate organization sponsoring policy debate. He is a former Assembly District Leader for the 27th District in Queens. Mr. Baker serves as special consultant to the Zuckerman Forum at NYU.
Elizabeth Davidson Wang, Assistant to the Executive DIrector
Elizabeth Davidson Wang handles logistics and administration for ALOUD. Liz graduated summa cum laude as a Phi Beta Kappa from Boston University. Ms. Wang taught middle school and high school at the prestigious Rivers School in Massachusetts leading classes in Art, Latin, Biology and Algebra. Next, she worked for Marriott International in sales and catering. She moved into the nonprofit world at the Citigroup Children's Center for ChildFirst Inc and developed thematic curriculum for art, literature and design.
Xian Chiang-Waren, Legislative Monitor
Xian Chiang-Waren serves as the Legislative Monitor. Finishing her final year at the Institute for Collaborative Education, she participated in the New York Urban Debate League and public debates on the Iraq war, landmines and voting rights. Xian has been a UN Debate Ambassador for the People Speaks program with the UN Foundation and has made presentations at Rockefeller Center, Emory University, for the City Bar Association and Bank of America. She has traveled to Africa, Romania and across the US on goodwill debate excursions.
This is our message to America’s urban students:
Your Voice. Your Future. Debate.