Dr. Sandy Berkowitz

Dr. Sandy Berkowitz is a World Schools and Public Forum debate coach at The Blake School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she also serves as Director of the Senior Speech program. Sandy is a coach of the USA Debate Team, working primarily with the Development Team. She has been a college professor of Communication Studies, where her research interests include the connections between debate and critical thinking, gender and social practices, and critical cultural discourses. Sandy has coached for more than 30 years and is a Barkley Forum Key Coach and a recipient of the 2015 Minnesota Coach of the Year Award. She has coached at both the high school and college levels and has had award-winning students in World Schools, Public Forum, Policy, Lincoln-Douglas, and Congressional Debate, as well as Oratory, Extemporaneous Speaking, Informative, and Rhetorical Criticism. Sandy has taught and/or directed at several summer workshops including Cornell, NDF, GDS, Harvard, Dartmouth, VBI, and Wayne State University.