KM DiColandrea says he works with young people because he can’t imagine doing anything else. In high school, he developed a love for speech and debate which has led to a passion for teaching and coaching young people to develop these skills. We first met KM DiColandrea, aka “DiCo,” in our Blue Sky episode with Jonathan Conyers. There, we heard of him helping turn around Jonathan’s life at Frederick Douglass High School. With Jonathan’s help, DiCo went on to co-found the Brooklyn Debate League in 2019 and is currently developing speech and debate opportunities for kids throughout greater New York and across the country. In this episode he describes why he thinks speech and debate programs are so good for developing young people and how he hopes that someday they will be included in schools’ core curriculum.
Blue Sky