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Leadership & Staff

About NAUDL Leaders & Staff

Board Chair:
Jennifer Northam Wade

Immediate Past Board Chair:
Stuart H. Singer
Partner
Boies Schiller & Flexner

Board Members:
Jeffrey A. Allred
Partner
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough

Eric Ball
General Partner
Impact Venture Capital

Kevin I.C. Donaldson
Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary
Heelstone Renewable Energy, LLC

Kelly P. Dunbar
Partner
Wilmer Hale

Wayne L. Firestone
Non-Profit Executive

Joshua Friess
Middle School Math Teacher and Debate Coach
The Avery Coonley School

Leonard A. Gail
Founding Partner
Massey & Gail

J. Mark Gidley
Partner
White & Case

David Glass, M.D.
Vice President, Research
Aging/Age-Related Disorders
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Michael J. Gottlieb
Partner
Willkie Farr & Gallagher

Kelsey Hilbrich
Investor
Patient Square Capital

The Honorable Kenneth M. Karas
U.S. District Court Judge
Southern District of New York

Mark T. Koulogeorge
Co-Founder and Managing General Partner
MK Capital

George S. LeMieux
Chairman of the Board of Directors and Shareholder
Gunster Law Firm

Meredith McClintock

Tammy McCutchen
Retired – Principal
Littler Mendelson PC

Nikhil Mirchandani
Managing Director – Europe
Silver Point Capital

Nirav S. Patel
CEO and Co-Founder
The Asia Group

Stephen C. Perry
President and CEO
Claritage Capital

Tom Rogers
Executive Chairman at Engine Gaming and Media//Chairman and CEO of TRget Media

James R. Roland
Sr. Director, Civic & Community Engagement and Director of Emory Center for Advancing Nonviolence (ECAN)
Emory University

Randal Sandler
Director of Client Services and Marketing
Bridgewater Associates

John Stubbs
Owner/Operator
Jewel of the South

Aaron Timmons
Director of Debate
Greenhill School

Shaun Van Horn
Principal
Fish & Richardson, P.C.

Honorary Board Members:
David Boies
Chairman
Boies, Schiller & Flexner

The Honorable David L. Boren (In Memoriam)
President
University of Oklahoma

Gen. (Ret.) Wesley K. Clark
Chief Executive Officer
Wesley K. Clark & Associate

Willie E. Gary
Partner
Gary, Williams, Parenti, Watson & Gary, P.L.C.C.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. University
Professor and Director, Hutchins
Center for African & American Research
Harvard University

The Honorable Ken Salazar
Partner
WilmerHale

The Honorable Lawrence H. Summers
Charles W. Eliot University Professor
Harvard University

Laurence H. Tribe
Professor of Constitutional Law
Harvard Law School and Carl M. Loeb University Professor Harvard University

Honorable Sylvester Turner (In Memoriam)
Mayor
Houston, Texas

Paul G. Vallas
Board of Trustees

David Zarefsky
Professor Emeritus, Communication Studies
Northwestern University

Office of the Interim Executive Director
Jennifer Wade
Chair, NAUDL Board of Directors
jenniferwade@urbandebate.org

Wayne Firestone
NAUDL Board of Directors

Julie Byun
Director of Finance & Accounting
312-427-8101
juliebyun@urbandebate.org
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Luke Hill
Director of Data Systems & Performance Management
312-427-0389
lukehill@urbandebate.org
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Madalyn Messer-Brooks
Director of Development
312-427-0176
madalyn.messerbrooks@urbandebate.org
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Sara Sanchez
Director of Programs & Communications
312-427-0388
sarasanchez@urbandebate.org
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Taylor Beck
Program Manager
312-427-0384
taylorbeck@urbandebate.org
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Kwa Fangtang
Development Associate
312-427-2012
kwafangtang@urbandebate.org
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Samantha (Sam) Kestler
Digital Marketing & Communications Coordinator
312-427-0152
samkestler@urbandebate.org
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