the team
EMMA LUCAS
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jorge buendía y garcía |
Emma Lucas is one of the reference debaters in the European circuit. Runner-up of the EUDC Tallinn 2017; Top 10 speaker and winner and CA of countless tournaments throughout Europe such as Leiden Open, Helsinki Open, IV Manchester Open and IV Durham Open, among others.
She is the actual winner of Astana EUDC 2020 and also best speaker of the Competition. |
Jorge Buendía lives in Madrid, but he's originally from the shire of El Bierzo, Villafranca del Bierzo, the northwestern of Spain, near Galicia. He studies a degree of Law at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Moreover, he has the fervent dream of an equality world, on this path, he has collaborated and participated with LGBT+ associations, having a special focus to fight for trans rights in Spain. Besides, Jorge is a member of the UAM Debate Society, and in 2019 he has been the equity of the IV BP UAM. He's a near friend and talkative and open minded person, being by his side, you will be feeling as if you two, had known each other since ever.
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nicole o´sullivanNicole is a final year Mathematics and Economics student at Trinity College Dublin. She has been equity officer for three competitions in the past and is the current equity officer of EUDC council. In university, she has been involved with numerous equality and diversity groups - she has been an ambassador for TCD's access program, she was chairperson of the TCD Women in STEM society, and has been a representative for her university's service for students with disabilities. She is also certified in conflict resolution and management. As a judge, she has broken at EUDC twice, most recently judging the semi-final of Astana EUDC, and has over 35 other judge breaks, including chairing 12 outrounds and being a panellist on 10 final panels. As a speaker she has 17 speaker breaks.
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simon martina-perezSimón is a PhD student at the University of Oxford. He has been involved in debating since school, when he ranked 2nd EFL speaker at WSDC Singapore. He has participated in over 60 tournaments in 15 different countries, amongst others as DCA of Spanish Worlds 2019 and ESL Finalist at EUDC 2016. He holds over a dozen judge breaks and several speaker breaks, including LSE Open 2019 (ESL). Simon has been involved in Spanish-speaking debating since 2018 and has CA’d several tournaments in Spain and Latin America, including the BP UAM, URJC and ToDi.
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the application process
APPLICATIONS OPEN
6TH OF SEPTEMBER
The application form will be released. Interested applicants must fill the form by the 19th of September at 23:59 Madrid time. The application form is one of the main ways in which we gain insight into our applicants, so we encourage candidates to fill it in carefully and take appropriate time to do so.
OPEN FEEDBACK BY THE COMMUNITY 20TH OF SEPTEMBER
We will publish a list of applicants, and the debating community will be invited to submit feedback on our potential Equity Officers, which may be non-anonymous or anonymous, but will in all cases be treated with the utmost discretion. Any feedback you send will be read and discussed only by Emma Lucas. Open feedback is very important - we can hardly be everywhere at once, and we see this as an invaluable tool to gather data on an applicant’s track record and potential. Feedback will close on the 30th of september at 23:59 Madrid time
DELIBERATION AND ONLINE INTERVIEWS 30TH OF SEPTEMBER
Once we have collected most of our data, we will begin deliberating over our applicants. During this time, we may choose to approach some of the candidates to schedule an online interview with Emma Lucas. Getting an interview or not getting an interview is not in any way indicative of the possibility of getting the position, we merely see it as another tool to obtain information on our applicants.
EQUITY ANNOUNCED
5TH OF OCTOBER
Our chosen Equity Officers will be announced to the community! Yay!
EUDC MADRID 2021
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