Charis Baker Founder & Coach
Charis has years of public speaking experience, including five years of competitive speech and debate. Charis has competed in each limited prep, platform, interpretative speech event offered by the homeschool league Stoa, as well as multiple wildcard speech events. Charis also competed in Lincoln Douglas, Team Policy, and Parliamentary Debate. Early in her career, she discovered her love for research, strategy, and concise, yet impactful communication.
Charis' primary goal in both competition and coaching is to cultivate skills that enable young people to clearly and confidently speak truth to a broken and hurting world. She seeks to mentor those around her in truth and grace. Charis' goal is "that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light" as 1 Peter 2:9 says. In a culture that will surround them with darkness, Charis prays that there will be a people who cannot help but proclaim the light.
At the national tournament her senior year, Charis became the Lincoln Douglas Speaker Champion, maintaining her place as season-long Speaker Champion, and qualifying to the final round of Extemporaneous speaking. During her time as a competitor, Charis qualified for finals in nearly every speech and debate event she competed in.
Charis holds a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Liberty University. She has experience in business administration, event coordinating, construction manufacturing, estimating, writing, and philosophy.
Charis has been coaching for over 5 years, during which she's been blessed to work with over 200 students. Her passion is to help students develop their critical thinking and communication skills to use them for a greater purpose. After many years of being poured into by other students and coaches, she is blessed to continue that impact. Whether you're looking for direction on writing your first speech, improving your research, or increasing the impact of your case, Charis would love to talk to you!