Madison Alexander (she/her/hers) Community Outreach Coordinator
Madison Alexander is a Denver native and DUDL alumni, having competed in the league for all four years of high school. She is a student at Metropolitan State University of Denver, majoring in sociology. She is excited to be working with DUDL this year and ready for what this debate season may bring!
John McKiernan (he/him/his) Director Of Tabulations
John competed in debate and speech events throughout his high school and university education. He coached high school competitors while getting his Bachelors degree and coached university competitors while earning a Masters and Ph.D. in Communication. John served as the Director of Forensics at two universities where he directed debate tournaments annually for two decades. John coached numerous national champions in both competitive speech and debate, but he is more interested in what his broad variety of students learned and how they applied those skills in their education and professional lives than their competitive successes. Since moving to Denver, John has worked as a project manager (with various titles) for nonprofit and for-profit corporations. His longest service was with two tech firms, managing software implementations and use for people in the organizations' national and international service departments. He also volunteered with several nonprofits, including 20+ years of raising dogs (and money, and awareness) for a service dog organization. John began volunteering as a DUDL judge and tournament staff member several years ago.
