Ali Huberlie is a rising sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is studying Political Science and Urban Studies. During her three-year national circuit debate career, Ali collected fourteen bids to the Tournament of Champions, fully qualifying to the tournament three times. In her senior year, she advanced to quarter-finals of the TOC; she was also the 5th speaker. Additionally, by the end of her senior year, Ali had championed the Harvard National Invitational, and the Vassar, Skyway, and Victory Briefs Sophomore Round Robins. Finally, she placed second at both the Greenhill and MBA Round Robins, and advanced to out-rounds at every single national circuit tournament she attended her junior and senior years.

While Ali is proud of her circuit career, she is most proud of the work she has done to improve access to debate in the Mid-Atlantic area. As Chair of After-School Programming and Senior Coordinator for Perspectives Debate, Inc., the nation’s leading non-profit Lincoln-Douglas debate organization, she coordinates after-school debate programs at ten Philadelphia public schools, and helps fund-raise to send low income students to tournaments and debate camps. This is her second year teaching at NDF: she has also taught at the National Symposium for Debate, and the Philadelphia Debate Institute.