"Over and over the narratives that we commit to will crash...so how do we move on in a way that is a bit more crash-proof?"

DiCo is a Speech & Debate coach and history teacher at Stuyvesant High School. He graduated from the school in '03 and from Yale in '07. He also founded Brooklyn Debate League, a Speech & Debate nonprofit.

We talked about processing trauma and identity through public speaking, letting go of the need to be the smartest to start crushing it, and not giving up on trust when things change; as well as Lin-Manuel Miranda, living in the borderlands, and speaking up.

Things mentioned:

Brooklyn Debate League
"Pedagogy of the Oppressed" by Paulo Freire
Rabbi Benay Lappe's TED Talk
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
"The Talent Code" by Daniel Coyle
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Lin-Manuel Miranda
The West Wing ----
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