Amazing Staff!
Camp Instructors
Founder and President: Griffith William Vertican Esq.
Coach Griffith is the director of the National Institute for Homeschool Debate. He is also a licensed attorney and one of the most successful debate coaches in America. He himself won our nation's largest collegiate debate tournament the NPDA in 2007. Students who attended his camps have won every division of debate and the overall tournament champion award. Students he personally coached took 1st place in TP Debate (Jeffrey Pistor) and 1st, 2nd, and 6th place in LD Debate at 2018 NITOC Championships. He's coached 12 different national champions in all three forms of debate, and the 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, and 2024 LD national champions were all his students.
Isaiah McPeak
Isaiah McPeak is a tech executive who has spent the past 25 years applying what he learned from speech and debate in the real world pressure cooker:
- gone head to head vs. McKinsey consultants and won Fortune500 business
- coached a billionaire keynote, along with many CEOs, authors, and founders
- personally closed $50M+ in venture capital and business, including leading the $0-1st million at 5 companies
- personally coached 10 first place national champions in high school and collegiate speech and debate
- currently coaches an in-prison debate team as a TX rehabilitation program
Brandon Winchel
Brandon won the 2013 NITOC Parli Champion, Top Speaker in Team Policy, and Top 1 in the nation for Policy Debate. He is also a licensed Attorney.
Eric Garcia
Eric Garcia has been the policy coach for Veritas since Fall of 2006. As a former collegiate coach, he also qualified multiple teams to the NPTE for both Irvine Valley College and Biola University.
Ethan Blount
Ethan Blount is a highly accomplished speech and debate competitor who excelled for five years in Stoa. During his Stoa career, he earned the speechranks rankings of 1st overall, 1st nationally in Lincoln Douglas Value Debate and Lincoln Douglas Value Speaker, 2nd in Apologetics and Parliamentary Debate, 3rd in Extemporaneous Speaking, plus top-10 finishes in Original Oratory and Persuasive Speaking. He won Extemporaneous at NITOC, Parli Speaker as well as getting 2nd in LD and LD speaker. Across his career, Ethan accumulated over 100 awards in various individual events and team formats, demonstrating exceptional skill in critical thinking, public speaking, and argumentation.
Recently, he became the interim CEO of a large specialty telecom company. His expertise spans web-based development, physical product design, manufacturing, assets allocation, and financial engineering.
Lisa Dunne
Dr. Lisa Dunne is an industry disruptor in the field of education. In addition to founding Chula Vista Christian University, she has launched 32 national K to 12 homeschool academies that are dedicated to rescuing the next generation from the toxic traits of traditional education. She is a dynamic, award-winning educator, author, and speaker with 25 years of classroom experience.
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