Aditya Chordiya

Chief Program Officer of Ascend Speech & Debate and Congressional Debate Coach

Serving as Chief Program Officer (“CPO”) of Ascend Speech & Debate, Aditya is also a 3 time Ascend Alumnus! Throughout his career, he accumulated 10+ bids to the Tournament of Champions, placed 13th at the 2023 NSDA Nationals, finaled at the 2023 Harvard Invitational, and championed Ascend’s Speech & Debate camp tournament. On the coaching side of things, Aditya was a Junior Instructor last year at Ascend and is the assistant Congressional Debate coach at James Logan High School. He has coached the Arizona MS Champion, coached numerous TOC Qualifiers, and contributed to the 2024 California State Champion and 2024 TOC runner-up. As a coach, Aditya prides himself on argument creation, refutation, but also shows students how to have fun within Congressional Debate and how to do it their way. He believes in the simplification of “flow” concepts and clarity of argumentation. Aditya is excited to be able to identify strengths for each student and cater his coaching to amplify those. Outside of debate, Aditya enjoys running, dominating fantasy football, and petting both of his cats.