About Us

Aileen has been debating for 3 years at Interlake High School. This past year, she was Captain of Interlake Public Forum debate and qualified to the Washington State Tournament and Gold TOC, reaching the furthest at Public Forum TOC in Washington State history. She's experienced in argument comparison, judge adaptation and foreign policy analysis. In her free time you can find her trying new origami patterns and coming up with theories for the next Game of Thrones book.

Jerry is an incoming freshman at New York University. He has been debating at Interlake High School for 4 years. Over the years, he qualified to the Washington State Debate Tournament twice with two different partners, and qualified to TOC gold this year, reaching the furthest at Public Forum TOC in Washington State history. He has extensive experience with technical debate, economic topics, and impact comparison. In his free time, you can find him playing piano, hitting birdies, and trying to imitate Gordon Ramsay's best dishes. 

Fiona is an incoming freshman at Georgia Tech. She has debated at the Overlake School for the past three years and was captain for Overlake Public Forum Debate in her junior year. In the past year, she's qualified to TOC gold and she reached elimination rounds at NSDA Nationals in 2022. In her free time outside of debate she likes playing piano, writing, and painting. 

Alice is a rising junior at The Overlake School in Washington. She has done debate for the past two years and has reached elimination rounds in larger tournaments like the National Season Opener and in the Washington State Tournament, recently also qualifying for NSDA Nationals. In her free time, she enjoys playing games and journaling. She has some experience teaching at the middle school level in school and she's very excited to work with Avis this year!  

Avery is a rising junior at the Overlake School. She's debated for the last two years, reaching elimination rounds at the National Season Opener and the Washington State Championships as well as qualifying for NSDA nationals twice. In addition to competing, she also had the opportunity to teach debate to our middle schoolers. Outside of debate, she enjoys listening to music and binge-watching Netflix! She’s very excited to work at Avis this year! 

Kerra considers herself a traditional debater and mainly compete in locals on the Eastern Missouri circuit (super lay). That being said, she loves circuit tournaments. She attended the National Symposium for Debate and is a two time NSDA and NCFL National Tournament qualifier. She has been teaching PF for 2 years as PF captain.

On the circuit, her biggest achievement this year was placing 5th at Stanford, the largest PF tourney my team has been to, as well as placing 6th at this year's National Catholic Forensics League Tournament! Off the circuit, she has experience in a plethora of events such as speech. She considers herself a very adaptive debater, but she emphasizes flay debating since it keeps this event accessible!