Baker is the Chief Executive Officer of the IMPACT Coalition and the Executive Director for the Associated Leaders on Urban Debate (ALOUD). ALOUD is a national initiative to make debate accessible to hundreds of thousands of students in low-income communities connecting groups using different strategies to build youth expression, including mediation, hip-hop, debate, reasoned discourse and town hall meetings. Baker is a past president of the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations and served as a U.N. Representative for the International Association for Religious Freedom. He teaches argumentation at New York University in the Culture and Communication Department of the Steinhardt School of Education and coaches the NYU Debate team. In 2003, the team captured the National Championships making him the first African American director to win that title since Melvin B. Tolson of Wiley College in 1935. In 2005, he served President of the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA), the largest intercollegiate organization sponsoring policy debate. In 2008, he became the Vice President for High School Affairs for the American Forensics Association.

Baker held earlier positions as a Queens Assembly District Leader, Chief Management Officer for the Unitarian Universalist UN Office and Director of Rhetorical Scholarship Laboratories at Cornell University.

He was a finalist in the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World competition. His past accolades include the 2003 National Speaker Association Pericles Award for Great Public Speaking, 1999 Don Brownlee Award as College Debate Coach of the Year, the 2005 Paul Slappy Award for fostering diversity and the 2004 Lucy Keele Award as Intercollegiate Debate Coach of the Year.

Baker is the Chief Executive Officer of the IMPACT Coalition and the Executive Director for the Associated Leaders on Urban Debate (ALOUD). ALOUD is a national initiative to make debate accessible to hundreds of thousands of students in low-income communities connecting groups using different strategies to build youth expression, including mediation, hip-hop, debate, reasoned discourse and town hall meetings. Baker is a past president of the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations and served as a U.N. Representative for the International Association for Religious Freedom. He teaches argumentation at New York University in the Culture and Communication Department of the Steinhardt School of Education and coaches the NYU Debate team. In 2003, the team captured the National Championships making him the first African American director to win that title since Melvin B. Tolson of Wiley College in 1935. In 2005, he served President of the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA), the largest intercollegiate organization sponsoring policy debate. In 2008, he became the Vice President for High School Affairs for the American Forensics Association.

Baker held earlier positions as a Queens Assembly District Leader, Chief Management Officer for the Unitarian Universalist UN Office and Director of Rhetorical Scholarship Laboratories at Cornell University.

He was a finalist in the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World competition. His past accolades include the 2003 National Speaker Association Pericles Award for Great Public Speaking, 1999 Don Brownlee Award as College Debate Coach of the Year, the 2005 Paul Slappy Award for fostering diversity and the 2004 Lucy Keele Award as Intercollegiate Debate Coach of the Year.

Baker is the Chief Executive Officer of the IMPACT Coalition and the Executive Director for the Associated Leaders on Urban Debate (ALOUD). ALOUD is a national initiative to make debate accessible to hundreds of thousands of students in low-income communities connecting groups using different strategies to build youth expression, including mediation, hip-hop, debate, reasoned discourse and town hall meetings. Baker is a past president of the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations and served as a U.N. Representative for the International Association for Religious Freedom. He teaches argumentation at New York University in the Culture and Communication Department of the Steinhardt School of Education and coaches the NYU Debate team. In 2003, the team captured the National Championships making him the first African American director to win that title since Melvin B. Tolson of Wiley College in 1935. In 2005, he served President of the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA), the largest intercollegiate organization sponsoring policy debate. In 2008, he became the Vice President for High School Affairs for the American Forensics Association.

Baker held earlier positions as a Queens Assembly District Leader, Chief Management Officer for the Unitarian Universalist UN Office and Director of Rhetorical Scholarship Laboratories at Cornell University.

He was a finalist in the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World competition. His past accolades include the 2003 National Speaker Association Pericles Award for Great Public Speaking, 1999 Don Brownlee Award as College Debate Coach of the Year, the 2005 Paul Slappy Award for fostering diversity and the 2004 Lucy Keele Award as Intercollegiate Debate Coach of the Year.

Baker is the Chief Executive Officer of the IMPACT Coalition and the Executive Director for the Associated Leaders on Urban Debate (ALOUD). ALOUD is a national initiative to make debate accessible to hundreds of thousands of students in low-income communities connecting groups using different strategies to build youth expression, including mediation, hip-hop, debate, reasoned discourse and town hall meetings. Baker is a past president of the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations and served as a U.N. Representative for the International Association for Religious Freedom. He teaches argumentation at New York University in the Culture and Communication Department of the Steinhardt School of Education and coaches the NYU Debate team. In 2003, the team captured the National Championships making him the first African American director to win that title since Melvin B. Tolson of Wiley College in 1935. In 2005, he served President of the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA), the largest intercollegiate organization sponsoring policy debate. In 2008, he became the Vice President for High School Affairs for the American Forensics Association.

Baker held earlier positions as a Queens Assembly District Leader, Chief Management Officer for the Unitarian Universalist UN Office and Director of Rhetorical Scholarship Laboratories at Cornell University.

He was a finalist in the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World competition. His past accolades include the 2003 National Speaker Association Pericles Award for Great Public Speaking, 1999 Don Brownlee Award as College Debate Coach of the Year, the 2005 Paul Slappy Award for fostering diversity and the 2004 Lucy Keele Award as Intercollegiate Debate Coach of the Year.

Baker is the Chief Executive Officer of the IMPACT Coalition and the Executive Director for the Associated Leaders on Urban Debate (ALOUD). ALOUD is a national initiative to make debate accessible to hundreds of thousands of students in low-income communities connecting groups using different strategies to build youth expression, including mediation, hip-hop, debate, reasoned discourse and town hall meetings. Baker is a past president of the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations and served as a U.N. Representative for the International Association for Religious Freedom. He teaches argumentation at New York University in the Culture and Communication Department of the Steinhardt School of Education and coaches the NYU Debate team. In 2003, the team captured the National Championships making him the first African American director to win that title since Melvin B. Tolson of Wiley College in 1935. In 2005, he served President of the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA), the largest intercollegiate organization sponsoring policy debate. In 2008, he became the Vice President for High School Affairs for the American Forensics Association.

Baker held earlier positions as a Queens Assembly District Leader, Chief Management Officer for the Unitarian Universalist UN Office and Director of Rhetorical Scholarship Laboratories at Cornell University.

He was a finalist in the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World competition. His past accolades include the 2003 National Speaker Association Pericles Award for Great Public Speaking, 1999 Don Brownlee Award as College Debate Coach of the Year, the 2005 Paul Slappy Award for fostering diversity and the 2004 Lucy Keele Award as Intercollegiate Debate Coach of the Year.

Baker is the Chief Executive Officer of the IMPACT Coalition and the Executive Director for the Associated Leaders on Urban Debate (ALOUD). ALOUD is a national initiative to make debate accessible to hundreds of thousands of students in low-income communities connecting groups using different strategies to build youth expression, including mediation, hip-hop, debate, reasoned discourse and town hall meetings. Baker is a past president of the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations and served as a U.N. Representative for the International Association for Religious Freedom. He teaches argumentation at New York University in the Culture and Communication Department of the Steinhardt School of Education and coaches the NYU Debate team. In 2003, the team captured the National Championships making him the first African American director to win that title since Melvin B. Tolson of Wiley College in 1935. In 2005, he served President of the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA), the largest intercollegiate organization sponsoring policy debate. In 2008, he became the Vice President for High School Affairs for the American Forensics Association.

Baker held earlier positions as a Queens Assembly District Leader, Chief Management Officer for the Unitarian Universalist UN Office and Director of Rhetorical Scholarship Laboratories at Cornell University.

He was a finalist in the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World competition. His past accolades include the 2003 National Speaker Association Pericles Award for Great Public Speaking, 1999 Don Brownlee Award as College Debate Coach of the Year, the 2005 Paul Slappy Award for fostering diversity and the 2004 Lucy Keele Award as Intercollegiate Debate Coach of the Year.

Baker is the Chief Executive Officer of the IMPACT Coalition and the Executive Director for the Associated Leaders on Urban Debate (ALOUD). ALOUD is a national initiative to make debate accessible to hundreds of thousands of students in low-income communities connecting groups using different strategies to build youth expression, including mediation, hip-hop, debate, reasoned discourse and town hall meetings. Baker is a past president of the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations and served as a U.N. Representative for the International Association for Religious Freedom. He teaches argumentation at New York University in the Culture and Communication Department of the Steinhardt School of Education and coaches the NYU Debate team. In 2003, the team captured the National Championships making him the first African American director to win that title since Melvin B. Tolson of Wiley College in 1935. In 2005, he served President of the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA), the largest intercollegiate organization sponsoring policy debate. In 2008, he became the Vice President for High School Affairs for the American Forensics Association.

Baker held earlier positions as a Queens Assembly District Leader, Chief Management Officer for the Unitarian Universalist UN Office and Director of Rhetorical Scholarship Laboratories at Cornell University.

He was a finalist in the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World competition. His past accolades include the 2003 National Speaker Association Pericles Award for Great Public Speaking, 1999 Don Brownlee Award as College Debate Coach of the Year, the 2005 Paul Slappy Award for fostering diversity and the 2004 Lucy Keele Award as Intercollegiate Debate Coach of the Year.

Baker is the Chief Executive Officer of the IMPACT Coalition and the Executive Director for the Associated Leaders on Urban Debate (ALOUD). ALOUD is a national initiative to make debate accessible to hundreds of thousands of students in low-income communities connecting groups using different strategies to build youth expression, including mediation, hip-hop, debate, reasoned discourse and town hall meetings. Baker is a past president of the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations and served as a U.N. Representative for the International Association for Religious Freedom. He teaches argumentation at New York University in the Culture and Communication Department of the Steinhardt School of Education and coaches the NYU Debate team. In 2003, the team captured the National Championships making him the first African American director to win that title since Melvin B. Tolson of Wiley College in 1935. In 2005, he served President of the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA), the largest intercollegiate organization sponsoring policy debate. In 2008, he became the Vice President for High School Affairs for the American Forensics Association.

Baker held earlier positions as a Queens Assembly District Leader, Chief Management Officer for the Unitarian Universalist UN Office and Director of Rhetorical Scholarship Laboratories at Cornell University.

He was a finalist in the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World competition. His past accolades include the 2003 National Speaker Association Pericles Award for Great Public Speaking, 1999 Don Brownlee Award as College Debate Coach of the Year, the 2005 Paul Slappy Award for fostering diversity and the 2004 Lucy Keele Award as Intercollegiate Debate Coach of the Year.

Baker is the Chief Executive Officer of the IMPACT Coalition and the Executive Director for the Associated Leaders on Urban Debate (ALOUD). ALOUD is a national initiative to make debate accessible to hundreds of thousands of students in low-income communities connecting groups using different strategies to build youth expression, including mediation, hip-hop, debate, reasoned discourse and town hall meetings. Baker is a past president of the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations and served as a U.N. Representative for the International Association for Religious Freedom. He teaches argumentation at New York University in the Culture and Communication Department of the Steinhardt School of Education and coaches the NYU Debate team. In 2003, the team captured the National Championships making him the first African American director to win that title since Melvin B. Tolson of Wiley College in 1935. In 2005, he served President of the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA), the largest intercollegiate organization sponsoring policy debate. In 2008, he became the Vice President for High School Affairs for the American Forensics Association.

Baker held earlier positions as a Queens Assembly District Leader, Chief Management Officer for the Unitarian Universalist UN Office and Director of Rhetorical Scholarship Laboratories at Cornell University.

He was a finalist in the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World competition. His past accolades include the 2003 National Speaker Association Pericles Award for Great Public Speaking, 1999 Don Brownlee Award as College Debate Coach of the Year, the 2005 Paul Slappy Award for fostering diversity and the 2004 Lucy Keele Award as Intercollegiate Debate Coach of the Year.

Baker is the Chief Executive Officer of the IMPACT Coalition and the Executive Director for the Associated Leaders on Urban Debate (ALOUD). ALOUD is a national initiative to make debate accessible to hundreds of thousands of students in low-income communities connecting groups using different strategies to build youth expression, including mediation, hip-hop, debate, reasoned discourse and town hall meetings. Baker is a past president of the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations and served as a U.N. Representative for the International Association for Religious Freedom. He teaches argumentation at New York University in the Culture and Communication Department of the Steinhardt School of Education and coaches the NYU Debate team. In 2003, the team captured the National Championships making him the first African American director to win that title since Melvin B. Tolson of Wiley College in 1935. In 2005, he served President of the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA), the largest intercollegiate organization sponsoring policy debate. In 2008, he became the Vice President for High School Affairs for the American Forensics Association.

Baker held earlier positions as a Queens Assembly District Leader, Chief Management Officer for the Unitarian Universalist UN Office and Director of Rhetorical Scholarship Laboratories at Cornell University.

He was a finalist in the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World competition. His past accolades include the 2003 National Speaker Association Pericles Award for Great Public Speaking, 1999 Don Brownlee Award as College Debate Coach of the Year, the 2005 Paul Slappy Award for fostering diversity and the 2004 Lucy Keele Award as Intercollegiate Debate Coach of the Year.

Baker is the Chief Executive Officer of the IMPACT Coalition and the Executive Director for the Associated Leaders on Urban Debate (ALOUD). ALOUD is a national initiative to make debate accessible to hundreds of thousands of students in low-income communities connecting groups using different strategies to build youth expression, including mediation, hip-hop, debate, reasoned discourse and town hall meetings. Baker is a past president of the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations and served as a U.N. Representative for the International Association for Religious Freedom. He teaches argumentation at New York University in the Culture and Communication Department of the Steinhardt School of Education and coaches the NYU Debate team. In 2003, the team captured the National Championships making him the first African American director to win that title since Melvin B. Tolson of Wiley College in 1935. In 2005, he served President of the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA), the largest intercollegiate organization sponsoring policy debate. In 2008, he became the Vice President for High School Affairs for the American Forensics Association.

Baker held earlier positions as a Queens Assembly District Leader, Chief Management Officer for the Unitarian Universalist UN Office and Director of Rhetorical Scholarship Laboratories at Cornell University.

He was a finalist in the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World competition. His past accolades include the 2003 National Speaker Association Pericles Award for Great Public Speaking, 1999 Don Brownlee Award as College Debate Coach of the Year, the 2005 Paul Slappy Award for fostering diversity and the 2004 Lucy Keele Award as Intercollegiate Debate Coach of the Year.

Baker is the Chief Executive Officer of the IMPACT Coalition and the Executive Director for the Associated Leaders on Urban Debate (ALOUD). ALOUD is a national initiative to make debate accessible to hundreds of thousands of students in low-income communities connecting groups using different strategies to build youth expression, including mediation, hip-hop, debate, reasoned discourse and town hall meetings. Baker is a past president of the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations and served as a U.N. Representative for the International Association for Religious Freedom. He teaches argumentation at New York University in the Culture and Communication Department of the Steinhardt School of Education and coaches the NYU Debate team. In 2003, the team captured the National Championships making him the first African American director to win that title since Melvin B. Tolson of Wiley College in 1935. In 2005, he served President of the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA), the largest intercollegiate organization sponsoring policy debate. In 2008, he became the Vice President for High School Affairs for the American Forensics Association.

Baker held earlier positions as a Queens Assembly District Leader, Chief Management Officer for the Unitarian Universalist UN Office and Director of Rhetorical Scholarship Laboratories at Cornell University.

He was a finalist in the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World competition. His past accolades include the 2003 National Speaker Association Pericles Award for Great Public Speaking, 1999 Don Brownlee Award as College Debate Coach of the Year, the 2005 Paul Slappy Award for fostering diversity and the 2004 Lucy Keele Award as Intercollegiate Debate Coach of the Year.

Baker is the Chief Executive Officer of the IMPACT Coalition and the Executive Director for the Associated Leaders on Urban Debate (ALOUD). ALOUD is a national initiative to make debate accessible to hundreds of thousands of students in low-income communities connecting groups using different strategies to build youth expression, including mediation, hip-hop, debate, reasoned discourse and town hall meetings. Baker is a past president of the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations and served as a U.N. Representative for the International Association for Religious Freedom. He teaches argumentation at New York University in the Culture and Communication Department of the Steinhardt School of Education and coaches the NYU Debate team. In 2003, the team captured the National Championships making him the first African American director to win that title since Melvin B. Tolson of Wiley College in 1935. In 2005, he served President of the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA), the largest intercollegiate organization sponsoring policy debate. In 2008, he became the Vice President for High School Affairs for the American Forensics Association.

Baker held earlier positions as a Queens Assembly District Leader, Chief Management Officer for the Unitarian Universalist UN Office and Director of Rhetorical Scholarship Laboratories at Cornell University.

He was a finalist in the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World competition. His past accolades include the 2003 National Speaker Association Pericles Award for Great Public Speaking, 1999 Don Brownlee Award as College Debate Coach of the Year, the 2005 Paul Slappy Award for fostering diversity and the 2004 Lucy Keele Award as Intercollegiate Debate Coach of the Year.

Baker is the Chief Executive Officer of the IMPACT Coalition and the Executive Director for the Associated Leaders on Urban Debate (ALOUD). ALOUD is a national initiative to make debate accessible to hundreds of thousands of students in low-income communities connecting groups using different strategies to build youth expression, including mediation, hip-hop, debate, reasoned discourse and town hall meetings. Baker is a past president of the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations and served as a U.N. Representative for the International Association for Religious Freedom. He teaches argumentation at New York University in the Culture and Communication Department of the Steinhardt School of Education and coaches the NYU Debate team. In 2003, the team captured the National Championships making him the first African American director to win that title since Melvin B. Tolson of Wiley College in 1935. In 2005, he served President of the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA), the largest intercollegiate organization sponsoring policy debate. In 2008, he became the Vice President for High School Affairs for the American Forensics Association.

Baker held earlier positions as a Queens Assembly District Leader, Chief Management Officer for the Unitarian Universalist UN Office and Director of Rhetorical Scholarship Laboratories at Cornell University.

He was a finalist in the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World competition. His past accolades include the 2003 National Speaker Association Pericles Award for Great Public Speaking, 1999 Don Brownlee Award as College Debate Coach of the Year, the 2005 Paul Slappy Award for fostering diversity and the 2004 Lucy Keele Award as Intercollegiate Debate Coach of the Year.

Baker is the Chief Executive Officer of the IMPACT Coalition and the Executive Director for the Associated Leaders on Urban Debate (ALOUD). ALOUD is a national initiative to make debate accessible to hundreds of thousands of students in low-income communities connecting groups using different strategies to build youth expression, including mediation, hip-hop, debate, reasoned discourse and town hall meetings. Baker is a past president of the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations and served as a U.N. Representative for the International Association for Religious Freedom. He teaches argumentation at New York University in the Culture and Communication Department of the Steinhardt School of Education and coaches the NYU Debate team. In 2003, the team captured the National Championships making him the first African American director to win that title since Melvin B. Tolson of Wiley College in 1935. In 2005, he served President of the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA), the largest intercollegiate organization sponsoring policy debate. In 2008, he became the Vice President for High School Affairs for the American Forensics Association.

Baker held earlier positions as a Queens Assembly District Leader, Chief Management Officer for the Unitarian Universalist UN Office and Director of Rhetorical Scholarship Laboratories at Cornell University.

He was a finalist in the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World competition. His past accolades include the 2003 National Speaker Association Pericles Award for Great Public Speaking, 1999 Don Brownlee Award as College Debate Coach of the Year, the 2005 Paul Slappy Award for fostering diversity and the 2004 Lucy Keele Award as Intercollegiate Debate Coach of the Year.

Baker is the Chief Executive Officer of the IMPACT Coalition and the Executive Director for the Associated Leaders on Urban Debate (ALOUD). ALOUD is a national initiative to make debate accessible to hundreds of thousands of students in low-income communities connecting groups using different strategies to build youth expression, including mediation, hip-hop, debate, reasoned discourse and town hall meetings. Baker is a past president of the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations and served as a U.N. Representative for the International Association for Religious Freedom. He teaches argumentation at New York University in the Culture and Communication Department of the Steinhardt School of Education and coaches the NYU Debate team. In 2003, the team captured the National Championships making him the first African American director to win that title since Melvin B. Tolson of Wiley College in 1935. In 2005, he served President of the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA), the largest intercollegiate organization sponsoring policy debate. In 2008, he became the Vice President for High School Affairs for the American Forensics Association.

Baker held earlier positions as a Queens Assembly District Leader, Chief Management Officer for the Unitarian Universalist UN Office and Director of Rhetorical Scholarship Laboratories at Cornell University.

He was a finalist in the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World competition. His past accolades include the 2003 National Speaker Association Pericles Award for Great Public Speaking, 1999 Don Brownlee Award as College Debate Coach of the Year, the 2005 Paul Slappy Award for fostering diversity and the 2004 Lucy Keele Award as Intercollegiate Debate Coach of the Year.

Baker is the Chief Executive Officer of the IMPACT Coalition and the Executive Director for the Associated Leaders on Urban Debate (ALOUD). ALOUD is a national initiative to make debate accessible to hundreds of thousands of students in low-income communities connecting groups using different strategies to build youth expression, including mediation, hip-hop, debate, reasoned discourse and town hall meetings. Baker is a past president of the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations and served as a U.N. Representative for the International Association for Religious Freedom. He teaches argumentation at New York University in the Culture and Communication Department of the Steinhardt School of Education and coaches the NYU Debate team. In 2003, the team captured the National Championships making him the first African American director to win that title since Melvin B. Tolson of Wiley College in 1935. In 2005, he served President of the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA), the largest intercollegiate organization sponsoring policy debate. In 2008, he became the Vice President for High School Affairs for the American Forensics Association.

Baker held earlier positions as a Queens Assembly District Leader, Chief Management Officer for the Unitarian Universalist UN Office and Director of Rhetorical Scholarship Laboratories at Cornell University.

He was a finalist in the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World competition. His past accolades include the 2003 National Speaker Association Pericles Award for Great Public Speaking, 1999 Don Brownlee Award as College Debate Coach of the Year, the 2005 Paul Slappy Award for fostering diversity and the 2004 Lucy Keele Award as Intercollegiate Debate Coach of the Year.

Baker is the Chief Executive Officer of the IMPACT Coalition and the Executive Director for the Associated Leaders on Urban Debate (ALOUD). ALOUD is a national initiative to make debate accessible to hundreds of thousands of students in low-income communities connecting groups using different strategies to build youth expression, including mediation, hip-hop, debate, reasoned discourse and town hall meetings. Baker is a past president of the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations and served as a U.N. Representative for the International Association for Religious Freedom. He teaches argumentation at New York University in the Culture and Communication Department of the Steinhardt School of Education and coaches the NYU Debate team. In 2003, the team captured the National Championships making him the first African American director to win that title since Melvin B. Tolson of Wiley College in 1935. In 2005, he served President of the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA), the largest intercollegiate organization sponsoring policy debate. In 2008, he became the Vice President for High School Affairs for the American Forensics Association.

Baker held earlier positions as a Queens Assembly District Leader, Chief Management Officer for the Unitarian Universalist UN Office and Director of Rhetorical Scholarship Laboratories at Cornell University.

He was a finalist in the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World competition. His past accolades include the 2003 National Speaker Association Pericles Award for Great Public Speaking, 1999 Don Brownlee Award as College Debate Coach of the Year, the 2005 Paul Slappy Award for fostering diversity and the 2004 Lucy Keele Award as Intercollegiate Debate Coach of the Year.

Baker is the Chief Executive Officer of the IMPACT Coalition and the Executive Director for the Associated Leaders on Urban Debate (ALOUD). ALOUD is a national initiative to make debate accessible to hundreds of thousands of students in low-income communities connecting groups using different strategies to build youth expression, including mediation, hip-hop, debate, reasoned discourse and town hall meetings. Baker is a past president of the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations and served as a U.N. Representative for the International Association for Religious Freedom. He teaches argumentation at New York University in the Culture and Communication Department of the Steinhardt School of Education and coaches the NYU Debate team. In 2003, the team captured the National Championships making him the first African American director to win that title since Melvin B. Tolson of Wiley College in 1935. In 2005, he served President of the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA), the largest intercollegiate organization sponsoring policy debate. In 2008, he became the Vice President for High School Affairs for the American Forensics Association.

Baker held earlier positions as a Queens Assembly District Leader, Chief Management Officer for the Unitarian Universalist UN Office and Director of Rhetorical Scholarship Laboratories at Cornell University.

He was a finalist in the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World competition. His past accolades include the 2003 National Speaker Association Pericles Award for Great Public Speaking, 1999 Don Brownlee Award as College Debate Coach of the Year, the 2005 Paul Slappy Award for fostering diversity and the 2004 Lucy Keele Award as Intercollegiate Debate Coach of the Year.

Baker is the Chief Executive Officer of the IMPACT Coalition and the Executive Director for the Associated Leaders on Urban Debate (ALOUD). ALOUD is a national initiative to make debate accessible to hundreds of thousands of students in low-income communities connecting groups using different strategies to build youth expression, including mediation, hip-hop, debate, reasoned discourse and town hall meetings. Baker is a past president of the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations and served as a U.N. Representative for the International Association for Religious Freedom. He teaches argumentation at New York University in the Culture and Communication Department of the Steinhardt School of Education and coaches the NYU Debate team. In 2003, the team captured the National Championships making him the first African American director to win that title since Melvin B. Tolson of Wiley College in 1935. In 2005, he served President of the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA), the largest intercollegiate organization sponsoring policy debate. In 2008, he became the Vice President for High School Affairs for the American Forensics Association.

Baker held earlier positions as a Queens Assembly District Leader, Chief Management Officer for the Unitarian Universalist UN Office and Director of Rhetorical Scholarship Laboratories at Cornell University.

He was a finalist in the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World competition. His past accolades include the 2003 National Speaker Association Pericles Award for Great Public Speaking, 1999 Don Brownlee Award as College Debate Coach of the Year, the 2005 Paul Slappy Award for fostering diversity and the 2004 Lucy Keele Award as Intercollegiate Debate Coach of the Year.

Baker is the Chief Executive Officer of the IMPACT Coalition and the Executive Director for the Associated Leaders on Urban Debate (ALOUD). ALOUD is a national initiative to make debate accessible to hundreds of thousands of students in low-income communities connecting groups using different strategies to build youth expression, including mediation, hip-hop, debate, reasoned discourse and town hall meetings. Baker is a past president of the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations and served as a U.N. Representative for the International Association for Religious Freedom. He teaches argumentation at New York University in the Culture and Communication Department of the Steinhardt School of Education and coaches the NYU Debate team. In 2003, the team captured the National Championships making him the first African American director to win that title since Melvin B. Tolson of Wiley College in 1935. In 2005, he served President of the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA), the largest intercollegiate organization sponsoring policy debate. In 2008, he became the Vice President for High School Affairs for the American Forensics Association.

Baker held earlier positions as a Queens Assembly District Leader, Chief Management Officer for the Unitarian Universalist UN Office and Director of Rhetorical Scholarship Laboratories at Cornell University.

He was a finalist in the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World competition. His past accolades include the 2003 National Speaker Association Pericles Award for Great Public Speaking, 1999 Don Brownlee Award as College Debate Coach of the Year, the 2005 Paul Slappy Award for fostering diversity and the 2004 Lucy Keele Award as Intercollegiate Debate Coach of the Year.

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