Top Level

Former debater (Walter Payton ‘16 and Pitt ‘20) and former coach (Central Catholic high school). No longer actively involved and not familiar with the topic.

luisacusick [at] gmail (put me on the e-mail chain)

I'll do my best to make a decision based solely on the arguments presented in the debate. Your speaker points will benefit from specific and well-researched strategies

Please be kind to your opponents and partner! I am very concerned with the way (esp. national circuit) policy debate trains us to treat other people

Relevant Predispositions

- Condo is good. Counterplan theory depends on the quality of the solvency advocate and my proclivities change from topic to topic
- I default to kicking the counterplan for the neg if they win offense but don't win the counterplan
- Skills and process framework arguments are more persuasive to me than topic education arguments
- I don’t like how little evidence quality matters in policy debates. I wish it were debated more
- It pretty much never makes sense to assign anything 100% risk. Likewise, minimizing an argument's risk to a small enough signal means it's overwhelmed by noise, and that's enough to assign it 0 risk

I’m a first year student at NYU. I did a lil debate in high school. I'll vote for anything if you win it. I'm not very good at flowing so pls go 60-70% top speed if it’s super technical. PLEASE IMPACT OUT YOUR ARGS. I'll give you high speaks if I like the way you debate/you make me like debate :)

I like education, engagement, and coffee.

I don't feel like listening to more than a minute of tricks.

I have a very high threshold for independent voters; they're usually very arbitrary BUT feel free to use them.

my email: joyfu2@gmail.com