UT Dallas Debate Team Alumni
Former members of the UT Dallas Debate Team have excelled in their academic and professional lives. If you are a former member of the UT Dallas debate team, we want to hear from you!
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Trevor Andreas BSTE’07
UT Dallas Debate: 2003-07 as debater; 2007-10 as coach
Academic: BS Telecommunications Engineering
Attended UT Dallas with an Academic Excellence Scholarship
Bio: Andreas works for Ericsson in Richardson, Texas.
Andrew Baker BA’11
Academic: BA Government and Politics
Bio: After a successful career debating at UT Dallas Baker is now an assistant debate coach at Dartmouth.
Christa Bieker BA’06
UT Dallas Debate: 2003-05
Academic: BA magna cum laude, Government and Politics
Bio: Bieker is a policy analyst with the National Center for Policy Analysis. She provides resources and topic analysis for NCPA’s Debate Central website initiative, a free online resource for high school debaters.
Ryan Blodgett BS’09
UT Dallas Debate: 2005-09
Academic: BS magna cum laude, Business Administration
Attended UT Dallas with an Academic Excellence Scholarship
Bio: Blodgett is a student at Harvard Law School.
Britt Clark BA’06
UT Dallas Debate: 2002-06; member of first UT Dallas team to be invited to compete in National Debate Tournament
Academic: BA cum laude, Government and Politics
Attended UT Dallas with an Academic Excellence Scholarship
JD from Baylor Law School (2008)
Bio: Clark is an attorney at the Casaubon Firm in Lewisville, Texas.
Jason Courville BA’03
UT Dallas Debate: 2001-03
Academic: BA, Interdisciplinary Studies
Bio: Courville is a teacher and the director of debate at Crosby High School in Crosby, Texas. He married Leah Courville in 2003 and they have three children.
Derek Denman BA’07
UT Dallas Debate: 2004-07
Academic: BA magna cum laude, Political Science
Attended UT Dallas with an Academic Excellence Scholarship
Bio: Derek is currently a PhD student in political theory at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Terri Easley BA’03
UT Dallas Debate: 2001-03
Academic: BA, Literary Studies; MA, Communications, Baylor University (2005)
Bio: Easley currently is an instructor and the director of debate at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas.
Aaron Fuqua
UT Dallas Debate: 2000-02
Bio: Fuqua works as professional photographer and website designer. He lives in the Dallas area.
Brandon Garrett BA’10
UT Dallas Debate: 2005-07
Academic: BA, Political Science
Bio: Garrett current lives and works in North Dallas. He has returned to UT Dallas to complete the requirements for second major in historical studies.
Stephen Garrett BA’09
UT Dallas Debate: 2005-09
Academic: BA cum laude, Political Science with a minor in Criminology
Teacher certification from UT Dallas
Bio: Stephen Garrett currently is a law student at the University of Houston. He also is a teacher and an assistant debate coach for Crosby High School. He is married to Ana Garrett and they have one son.
Krysha Gregorowicz Heavner BA’04
UT Dallas Debate: 2000-02
Academic: BA magna cum laude, Government and Politics
Bio: Krysha Gregorowicz Heavner is married to Brent Heavner. She is a PhD student in political communication at the University of Michigan.
James Howard
UT Dallas Debate: 2004-05
Academic: BA, Political Science, History, and Sociology from Louisiana State University – Shreveport (2008)
Bio: Currently a law student at Baylor University.
Jason Jordan BA’00
UT Dallas Debate: 1996-2000
Academic: BA Summa Cum Laude, Sociology; PhD, Political Science, University of Colorado at Boulder (2006)
Bio: Jordan is currently a political science instructor at Florida State University. He is married to Lisa Jordan.
Lisa Anselmi Jordan BS’99, MS’00
UT Dallas Debate: 1996-2000
Academic: BS magna cum laude, Economics and Finance; MS, Applied Economics; PhD, Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder (2006)
Justin Kirk BA’04, MA’07
UT Dallas Debate: 1999–2001 as debate; 2004 – 2010 as coach
Academic: BA, Government and Politics; MA, Humanities – History of Ideas
Bio: After 8 years serving as an assistant coach to the UT Dallas debate team Justin has moved on to the University of Kansas where he is in the communication graduate student and a coach.
Lauren Muñoz BA’04
UT Dallas Debate: 2001-03
Academic: BA summa cum laude, Literary Studies
Attended UT Dallas with an Academic Excellence Scholarship
JD, Northwestern Law School (2010)
Bio: Muñoz currently is an attorney in Chicago.
Wayne Myers BA’04
UT Dallas Debate: 1999-2001
Academic: BA magna cum laude, Government and Politics with a minor in Philosophy;
Attended UT Dallas with an Academic Excellence Scholarship
JD cum laude, Northwestern Law School (2007)
Bio: Myers is an associate in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis focusing his practice in commercial litigation.
Laura Rashedi BA’05
UT Dallas Debate: 2001-02
Academic: BA cum laude, Literary Studies with minors in Government and Politics and Biology;
McDermott Scholar
Attended UT Dallas with an Academic Excellence Scholarship
MBA, 2006;
JD, Emory University (2010)
Bio: Rashedi currently is an associate at Schiff Hardin LLP in Atlanta.
Tim Schweitzer BA’09
UT Dallas Debate: 2005–07
Academic: BA, Political Science
Bio: Currently a law student at Washburn University in Topeka, Kan.
Sara Stephens BA’08
UT Dallas Debate: 2004-08
Academic: Member, Collegium V honors and enrichment program; BA cum laude, Political Science (2008)
Attended UT Dallas with an Academic Excellence Scholarship
Bio: Stephens is a law student at Southern Methodist University, where she also is a member of both the mock trial team and the law review. She plans to practice law in Dallas upon graduation.
Gabriela Stevenson BA’06, MS’09
UT Dallas Debate: 2002-06
Academic: BA, Government and Politics with minor in Literary Studies; MS, Sociology
Bio: Stevenson currently is a PhD student in sociology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
