SPEECH AND DEBATE FOR ALL.
Quick Resources
Sadie Zwonitzer | 1/1/25
“You will read and hear students constantly explain what arguments are more moral to run or how we can help damaged communities in our cruel world, yet frequently we overlook the largest sector of speech and debate: ourselves.”
Cade Kuznia | 12/25/24
"In speech and debate, we seemingly put the world around us on trial: politicians, militaries, industries, acts of violence, and abuses of human rights. Today, I’m turning that same prosecutor's desk around. The entire speech and debate community is on trial."
Finian Knepper | 12/18/24
"A common critique of lay judges is that they have no understanding of the metrics of which events should be scored on, they purely vote for perceptual dominance. These critics forget that there is no scorecard. What a judge prefers will bounce back and forth. Paradigms exist to help competitors navigate them, as they are expected to. Is it unfair then, for forensics to be expected to work with the perspective of someone to whom, this is all new? The answer is no."
More about us
Equality in Forensics is a student-run nonprofit organization that provides free and online resources to make speech and debate more accessible to students, educators, and coaches across America. We host a regularly updated blog, produce free and online resources, sponsor free coaching services, and host free events. Equality in Forensics has a mission of making speech and debate accessible to high school students across the country. We accomplish this through substantive, impactful activism.
Our community
Equality in Forensics fosters an active, tight-knit community in the Discord server. Here, we publish announcements, host events, and give debaters the opportunity to network and learn from each other.
@equalityinforensics
Equality in Forensics runs a regularly updated Instagram page that posts our blog articles, announces new events and opportunities, and engages with the rest of the speech and debate community.
Equality in Forensics publishes high quality video content to help students learn speech and debate events, get informed on new debate topics, and learn from the best competitors across the world.