Claire Miller

Ascend California Junior Instructor - Congressional Debate

Claire Miller is a freshman at UCLA studying computational biology. She competed in congressional debate for five months while managing to accumulate significant accomplishments highlighted by a semi final run at Harvard, despite it being her first tournament, and achieving 15th in the Senate at the 2023 NSDA Nationals. She chose to do congress because of the emphasis on unique speaking and strong and creative argumentation. Outside of debate she is passionate about her lovely friends, keeping up to date on literally any sport, and being outdoors. As a coach she values finding a speaking style that is tailored to each individual competitor while balancing solid argumentation and productive refutation. She is very excited to return to Ascend as a coach again this summer because of how truly fun it is and how much she enjoys watching debaters grow!