Career “The intellectual and interpersonal benefits of participating on a debate team are equipping a new generation of urban students with the skills, motivation, confidence and ambition to pursue a wide variety of careers. Employers in growing numbers recognize the crucial necessity and virtue of diversity in their workplaces, therefore urban-educated employees with these attributes are highly valued. For example, law schools and law firms support debate as an important pipeline to legal careers for minority students” (http://www.urbandebate.org/value.shtml).
“Debate training equips youth for future success. Former debaters are disproportionately represented among leaders in the media, the business word, the law, the academy, and the government. Nearly two out of three Members of the 104th U.S. Congress (1996-97) were former debaters.” (http://www.urbandebate.org/quickfacts.shtml)