Dr. Tripp Rebrovick has been the Coach of Debate at Harvard College and Director of the Harvard Debate Council since 2017. He received an A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard College in 2009 and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 2016. He has been teaching and coaching debate for over twenty years. As a high school debater, he won the NSDA national championship and was the top-ranked individual speaker at the Tournament of Champions in 2005. He was the first debater from Harvard to reach the elimination rounds all four years of competition at the National Debate Tournament, where he was also twice the 5th speaker in 2008 and 2009. As a coach, his students have won the Rex Copeland Award, given to the college team with the best overall regular season record, and have been the champions at nearly every major college tournament. He directs the Harvard National Speech and Debate Tournament, which draws over five-thousand competitors each February, and the Harvard Debate Council Summer Workshops, along with periodic workshops around the world.