Alyssa Lucas-Bolin is the Director of Debate at Sonoma Academy. Prior to working at Sonoma, Alyssa served as the Director of Debate at Glenbrook South High School and as an assistant coach at Notre Dame High School. Alyssa has qualified teams to the Tournament of Champions every year she has been a coach and has had teams go as far as the semifinals. She holds a Masters of Art in Teaching as well as a Masters in Communication Studies. She is a Key Coach in the Gold Key Society at Emory University and a recipient of the Rising Star Award from the National Debate Coaches Association.

Curtis Ortega is currently a 3rd year college student at California State University of Long Beach (CSU Long Beach) where he competes on the policy debate team. He previously debated for Humanities and Arts Academy of Los Angeles in highschool as a part of LAMDL, which is also known as the Los Angeles Metropolitan Debate League. As for college, he is currently a 3x First Round at Large Bid Recipient, which makes him a nationally-ranked top 16 team in the country. He is a former Copeland Panelist, and has been invited to the Brick City Round Robin, Dartmouth Round Robin, and the Kentucky Round Robin. Curtis has won other national tournaments on the NDT/CEDA Circuit, such as the University of Mary Washington Tournament in 2022, the University of Kentucky Tournament in 2023, and ADA Nationals in 2024. This year, he has won the Brick City Round Robin, and earned top-speaker at CEDA Nationals, while placing deep at most national tournaments and earning high speaker awards throughout his career. He has previously taught at the LAMDL Debate Camp, the Wyoming Forensic Institute, and the UH Honors Debate Workshop, and is excited to teach at CNDI for the first time this summer!

Ian has coached full-time at College Prep in Oakland since 2018, following a decade of coaching at both the high school and collegiate levels beginning in 2008. At CPS, he has coached multiple teams in both Cross-Examination and Public Forum to qualify for the Tournament of Champions. His teams have advanced to deep elimination rounds at national invitationals such as Presentation, Bronx, Damus, Alta, Arizona State, Golden Desert, Stanford, and Cal. Most recently, a CPS Policy team reached the quarterfinals at the Barkley Forum at Emory, while Public Forum teams reached the semifinals at Arizona State and the finals at Golden Desert.

Ozzy loves underdogs, hard workers, excellence, and cool people who do debate. As a high school debater, he was part of the only class in the history of Wyoming debate to qualify for the TOC; that same year he and his partner placed 7th at NFL nationals. As a competitor for Missouri State University, Martin was a first-round policy debater and was awarded Top Speaker at the NDT and CEDA Nationals, losing in the semifinals of both. Later, Martin received a masters degree at Wake Forest University while coaching nationally successful teams including multiple round robin appearances, first-round bids, and multiple elimination appearances including at the NDT. Since then, he has worked with NDT programs at Kansas State, the University of North Texas, JCCC, Macalester, Missouri State, and Wake Forest. As a high school coach, Martin’s teams have made appearances in late elims at Montgomery Bell Academy, Emory, the Glenbrooks, and multiple TOCs. He has done time at many of the country’s premier high school camps including Berkeley, Gonzaga, Kansas, Michigan, Michigan State, Missouri State, Stanford, and UMKC.