jon sharp
jon sharp, Swing Lab Director
jon sharp has directed the Swing Lab at Stanford for a decade. Currently, jon is an assistant coach at the University of Kentucky and the coordinator of the Jefferson County Debate League in Kentucky. In addition to directing the Swing Lab program, jon is the Director of the Fellows program at the Kentucky Debate Institute. jon has also taught and/or directed at the Berkeley, Emory, Bates, and Kentucky summer institutes. As a college debater for Emory, jon and his partner won the West Georgia and Harvard tournaments, and the Dartmouth Round Robin. As a coach at the University of West Georgia, the squad appeared in the finals of CEDA Nationals an unprecedented three times running, with two National Championships. jon has also been named three times to the student-selected panel of "Critics of the Year." Recently, jon finished his doctoral studies in communication at the University of Southern California and coached for New Trier High School.