Meet Our Tutors
Sofiya Andreyeva
Debate Tutor
Sofiya Andreyeva is in her second year at NYU School of Law. She received her undergraduate degree from NYU, where she majored in Global Public Health and History. While at NYU, Sofiya debated for four years on the NYU policy debate team and worked her way up to become President of the team during her senior year. Although she saw competitive success as a debater, she has enjoyed coaching far more. As an undergraduate at NYU, she was actively involved in IPPF – she has both graded many essays and served as an NYU Ambassador for Westfield. She co-authored the IPPF topic paper in 2019.
Sofiya has several years of experience in working with students from fifth grade to college on competitive policy debate and public speaking. Before law school, she worked full-time at Success Academy Midtown West in New York City, where she taught speech and debate electives and coached middle school students in competitive policy debate. She is currently volunteering as a Debate Teacher for the High School Legal Institute in New York City, where she teaches a weekly speech and debate program for high school students.
Patrick Henderson
Debate & MUN Tutor
Patrick has been debating at Westfield since he was 5, so if you encounter a picture of a tiny red-headed boy on this site, it’s probably him. He holds the title of the most competitively successful Westfield student in the history of the school. He has won 14 high school debate tournaments, including Yale and Vassar. He was on the 3-person oral IPPF team that became the World Champions and he was on the first American team to win the McGill British Parliamentary Invitational. He was twice selected to compete on the American team at the Worlds High School Debate Competition in Australia and South Africa. In total, he has won 43 individual and team high school debate awards and 20 awards at high school MUN Conferences including 6 Best Delegates. During his senior year of high school, he and his partner were ranked the Second High School Parliamentary Debate team in the country and the First in the East Coast. Since he just had to create this for his college applications, he has included his list of wins here. Patrick has been teaching classes at Westfield for the past two years. He plans to attend Middlebury College next year and is currently on a gap year.
In addition to teaching debate at Westfield and serving as the volunteer coordinator for the FORA (Forging Opportunities for Refugees in America) Rohingya debate program, he plans to spend this year making homemade pasta, hiking in the Green Mountains of Vermont and playing with his dogs.