Bring Take the Mic to your community.
Take the Mic has a chapter system that lets student leaders bring speech and debate to their communities. Chapters are student-led but operate under the broader Take the Mic mission.
Starting a chapter isn't complicated.
Find your school
Identify where you want to bring speech and debate — your school, a library, a community center.
Claim your mic
Tell us about yourself and why you want to start a chapter. We'll connect with you.
Get the kit
We provide resources, programming guidance, and support to help you get started.
Chapter leaders teach, organize, and build access.
Who can start a chapter? Students who want to bring speech and debate to their community.
- 1Teach students speech and debate skills
- 2Organize lessons and practice sessions
- 3Create local programs and events
- 4Work with schools or community organizations
- 5Introduce students to speech and debate
- 6Build local access to communication opportunities
You're not doing it alone.
Programming guidance and curriculum resources
Connection to the broader Take the Mic network
Support from the organization's leadership
Resources to help you teach beginners
Where chapters exist.
Take the Mic has created chapters internationally and worked with students in multiple communities. Chapter locations are shown at a community level to protect the privacy of student leaders.
International chapter network
Chapters are active in multiple communities. As our network grows, this directory will show chapter locations at a community level. For privacy, we don't publish individual addresses or student leader information.
Bring speech and debate to your community.
One mic can become a room full of voices.