Lydia Smith is the Associate Director of Student Engagement at the Barkley Forum for Debate, Deliberation, and Dialogue at Emory University. Lydia holds a B.S. in Public Policy with a concentration in Nonprofit Leadership from Georgia State University and a Master of Public Administration degree from Georgia College and State University. She is an Atlanta Urban Debate League alumnae.
Lydia leads the Emory Conversation Project, in which she utilizes the Interactivity Foundation’s Collaborative Discussion Toolkit as part of student development, advises All Black Emory, a podcast and facilitation training group, and coordinates public debates on campus. She also serves as the Director of the Fundamentals of Debate, Deliberation, and Dialogue program at the Emory National Debate Institute.
