Natalie competed for The Potomac School in McLean, VA for 6 years in both speech and debate events. Overall, she finished her senior year ranked 1st in Virginia and 8th in the US. On the speech side, she found the most success in Program Oral Interpretation and Humorous Interpretation, winning Yale, UK, GMU, and finaling at the Tournament of Champions, Bronx, Bluekey, and Duke. She got back into Public Forum debate her senior year and finished runner-up at the 2023 Silver TOC. While familiar with tech debate, she specializes in traditional/lay PF lay and prefers persuasive rhetoric to theory. Natalie is studying Political Science and History at Northwestern.