September 19, 2024 (abovethelaw.com) – It’s telling when someone sporting accolades from president of Harvard Law Review to Supreme Court clerk to Biglaw managing partner isolates one high school experience as transformative. And for the last several years, Singer has worked to make sure that experience remains available to future generations.
From 2017 until earlier this year, Singer served as the chairman of the board of the National Association for Urban Debate Leagues, an organization working with 20 leagues across the country to provide inner city public school students with access to policy debate competition. Traditionally a staple high school extracurricular offering, debate had increasingly become the province of private schools or suburban public schools. The urban debate league system arose to reverse that trend and bring programs back to metropolitan public schools. At this point, NAUDL and its affiliated programs reach around 10,000 students annually.