Jonathan Alston

Jonathan is a high school English teacher and the Lincoln-Douglas debate coach for Newark Science High School in New Jersey. He graduated from Yale University. He has coached five N.J. State Champions and has had debaters make it to late elimination rounds at Stanford, Emory, Greenhill, Wake Forest, Harvard, and the Tournament of Champions, among others, in his ten years as a coach. Jonathan is a gifted lecturer and teacher, consistently getting the highest evaluations from his lab students year after year in addition to being highly requested by coaches to work with their students to get them to maximize their potential. His attention to detail, diversity of teaching methods and the ability to instill both confidence and improved skills into younger students trying to make the transition to the next level of competition is second to none.