Sharmila Parmanand Accepts Faculty Position in USA at University of Vermont
Sharmila Parmanand Accepts Faculty Position in USA at University of Vermont
Globally renowned debate trainer and scholar Sharmila Parmanand from the Philippines is coming to America to teach and coach debate at the University of Vermont and serve as a trainer and coach with the Lawrence Debate Union.
Lawrence Debate Union director Alfred Snider said, “We are very proud to announced that we have offered a faculty position, and it has been accepted, by perhaps the most celebrated debate trainer in the world. She has done it all and done it with style, and we are excited with what she can do with our program and our students. She follows in the path of amazing predecessors at Vermont, such as Stephen Boyle (Irish Times winner), Mary Nugent (famous English debate trainer from Cambridge) and James Hardy (from Cambridge who is the WUDC Masters Debate Champion and IDEA/HWS Round Robin winner).”
Ms. Parmanand graduated cum laude from Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines and earned an MA in Gender and Development from the University of Melbourne in Australia, where she attended on an Australian Leadership Scholarship Award. She has produced many academic research papers.
As a debate trainer she has an amazing track record. She has worked with academic institutions and government and development agencies such as the Open Society Institute,IFES, American Center and British Council in Myanmar, various universities and NGOs to run debate and public speaking training for students and teachers. She advises them on the organizational and administrative aspects of the events andserves as a trainer/coach/resource speaker. To date, she has conducted trainings in over twenty-five countries, including the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Myanmar, Hong Kong, Macau, China, Japan, South Korea, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, theNetherlands, Mexico, United States, Australia, South Africa, Germany, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, and New Zealand. In December 2012she served as a Co-Chief Adjudicator for the World Universities Debating Championship (the largest non-sportingstudent event in the world) in Berlin.
Ms. Parmanand will be coaching the World Schools Debate Championship team for the Philippines at the tournament in Thailand, and after that will come to Vermont where she will be a faculty member at the North America Debate Academy.
Lawrence Debate Union, University of Vermont, debate@uvm.edu
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