Speaker List

December 17th 2025 at 12:30 pm
In-Person/Hybrid Washington DC Weekly Club Meeting
Speaker: Annual Meeting & Holiday Music by the Washington Chorus

Please join us for a Holiday Musical Performance.

January 7th 2026 at 12:30 pm
In-Person/Hybrid Washington DC Weekly Club Meeting
Speaker: David Trigaux
Enriching our Local DMV Youth and Community at-large thru Debate. Debate as an Enabler of Peace and Conflict Resolution.

David Trigaux
Originally the only staff member at WUDL, David Trigaux now oversees all of WUDL programminand its development efforts. He wears many hats around the WUDL, ranging from coach training
and curriculum development to grant writing, volunteer management, and fundraising. He works with the Board to determine the strategic direction of the organization. Under his leadership, the
organization has grown from just over 100 students to serving thousands each year.  

A former high school and college debater, David has coached debate for more than a decade. While he believes that the greatest benefits of debate aren’t tied to wins and loses but his students have achieved competitive success along the way, include many qualifiers and break round participants at the Tournament of Champions, NFL/NSDA, NCFL, the UDNC, and UDL MS Nationals (6x time champs). He’s also coached a multi-national team to an international title to the InternationalSpace Society’s spUN Debate Program. Many of David’s former students have been awarded college scholarships for debate.

 Outside of WUDL, David has worked in local and national politics as a consultant, researcher, and campaign staffer. He’s worked to develop an international debate and civic discourse curriculum, served on the Board of Directors for Pay our Interns, a non-profit dedicated to advocating for paid internships in the public and private sector. 

David was named one of the National After-school Association’s Next Generation Leaders for 2019, and completed CityBridge’s Design Studio Incubator, Louise Burrell Miller cohort for new program design centered around ESL Debate.
 

January 14th 2026 at 12:30 pm
In-Person/Hybrid Washington DC Weekly Club Meeting
Speaker: Christine Cotter
Sail Beyond Cancer Annapolis

Christine Cotter became Executive Director of Sail Beyond Cancer Annapolis in 2024.
Before joining Sail Beyond Cancer Annapolis, Ms. Cotter was Vice President of Public
Relations at American Professional Agency, Inc.  She has more than 20 years of
experience in managing and working with membership organizations, including the
American Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians, American Psychiatric Association
district branches, and Maryland and District of Columbia Society of Clinical Oncology. 
Christine works with our Board and volunteers, and is responsible for the administration
of Sail Beyond Cancer Annapolis.