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 three-time Ascend Alumnus! Throughout his career in Congressional Debate, he was an NSDA finalist, Harvard finalist and most importantly, championed Ascend’s Speech & Debate camp tournament. On the coaching side of things, Aditya is a Senior Instructor at Ascend and is the assistant Congressional Debate coach at James Logan High School. He has coached the 2025 TOC runner-up, the champion of the 2025 Harvard Round Robin, finalists at NSDA and Harvard, and contributed to the 2024 California State Champion. As a coach, Aditya prides himself on argument creation, refutation, and showing students how to embrace their personality in Congressional Debate. 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 playing with both of his cats.