Justin is a speaking and debate evangalist. During the year, he serves as the Head Coach for the Wake Forest Debate Team and Assistant Professor of the Practice teaching oral communication. He has taught oral communication for 24 years at multiple high schools, Georgetown, Kansas State, North Texas Universities before coming to Wake Forest. With two degrees in secondary education and an undying passion for teaching, you'll be hard to find anyone more equipped to empower your voice. He has coached several national champions over this span and more importantly had students go on to do great things. He has always emphasized an extremely involved and active learning environment. It is not uncommon for students to express that they felt like they have "gone through a workout" after completing one of his speaking sessions. He has won numerous awards for teaching and received extremely high evaluations at every stop along the way. He's not all work...During breaks he enjoys frisbee, soccer, basketball or playing many different instruments.

Sammi will return for her second year teaching at the Wake Forest Speech and Debate Camps. Both a burgeoning scholar and a practiced speaker Sammi brings experience, accumen and a youthful energy to make learning interactive and enjoyable. Having just completed her MA in Communication Studies where her Teaching Assistant scores were incredibly high, she will start PhD school (she has several to pick from). She previously was an extremely successful Parliamentary Debate Speaker. Sammi is also trained to deal with emergency situations.

Director of Debate at Wake Forest, Dr. Jarrod Atchison is well respected both for his argument acumen and his emphatic insistence on helping students become better debaters and people. After spending several years as an instructor in the top senior lab at Michigan, Jarrod is focused on building a great workshop experience at Wake Forest. He coached a Copeland Winner and NDT First Rounds for the past 8 years. Many don't know he also was an extremely successful debater: top seed at the NDT, Copeland runner-up, and third speaker at the NDT. In high school he won the Greenhill and Harvard Round Robins. Jarrod has judged the final round of the National Debate Tournament 3 times. Both at the high school and college level, regardless of argument choice, Jarrod consistently finds himself at the top of the pref sheets.

Policy debate veteran, mentor, and academic leader are just a few ways we define Daryl Burch. Daryl has taught public speaking high school in the DC and Maryland area for 20 years. He is one of the few who has coached national champions at both the high school and collegiate level. Extremely well versed in questions of social justice; he has used this knowledge to help students become more powerful in the words they speak no matter their political affiliations. While he has an expertise in a set of literature, Daryl has a passion for making all students better speakers, thinkers, and arguers. Previously he coached in college at Michigan state, Emory University, and Towson University camps leading teams to success in the final rounds of a variety of national competitions. Daryl’s impressive educational background and his passion for helping students make him the perfect instructor for speakers of all levels.