Mackoy Turpen: Head debate coach
Mackoy Turpen
Head debate coach
United States
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Hayfield Secondary school
Head debate coach | 01/2020 - Current
- Designed the team curriculum
- Cultivated hundreds of argumentative strategies and corresponding evidence
- Handled administrative work including, registering students, finding transportation, and getting food to underprivileged students at tournaments
Daniel Morgan intermediate school restorative justice workshop, Team member
February 2020 - March 2020
Winchester, VA
- Facilitated dialogues between Daniel Morgan faculty regarding race relations, gender dynamics, and restorative justice
- Collaborated with administration to implement changes to faculty code of conduct
- Resulted in significant changes in faculty to student relationships and a reduction in suspensions
EXTRA CURRICULARS
Varsity Member, George Mason University Debate Team | 08/2017 - Current
- Develop competitive and strategic solutions to issues posed by the College Debate Topic Committee
- Evolve and refine solutions to find new avenues for strategic communications
- Cultivate over 500 pieces of unique research a year
Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution
Peacebuilding Fellow | 01/2021 - 05/2021
- Immersion in conflict theory and resolution based practice
- Collaborated with a small undergraduate cohort to develop new perspectives on peacebuilding
- Used the semester to develop a peacebuilding project that engages conflict resolution