Description
This issue features stories about coaches, students, and alums who are paying it forward in our activity. Inside, we chat with Dylan De Leon, co-founder of the Washington State Forensics Association (WSFA) Student Advocacy Committee—a group of students from around the state who collaborate virtually to acknowledge, discuss, and solve challenges facing the broader forensic community. NSDA alum Anneteke Adoga shares reflections from her interview with fellow alum and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson about the impact speech and debate has had on her life and career. Isabella Royer, the 2023 NSDA national champion and 2024 runner-up in Program Oral Interp, opens up about how she found strength in vulnerability and making a difference as she prepared to perform on the final round stage. Gabriella Otero shares her journey as a three-event middle school national champion and her aspirations to continue mentoring younger students as she enters high school. Plus, 25 years after the creation of Tabroom.com, we explore the tournament management system that makes so many speech and debate events possible every weekend.
Volume 99, Issue 3 (68 pages)
Rostrum shares best practices, resources, and opportunities that connect, support, and inspire a diverse community of educators committed to empowering students through speech and debate.
