History

Origins

The Missouri Debate Union was founded in 2020 by Aravind Kalathil, Paul Odu and Luke Pittman with heavy inspiration from the Oxford Debate Union. It has since grown from a small start up organization to one with a dedicated following with monthly events ranging from student debates to social gatherings and become strongly affiliated with the Kinder Institute of Constitutional Democracy.

Executive Board History

School Year	Director of Programming	Director of Outreach	Finance Chair	Logistics Chair	Social Chair	General Secretary
2023/2024	Gwen Blevins	Jaden Reed	Ben Baumgart	Madina Band Ali	Aidan Pittman	Trey Trapini
2022/2023	Paul Odu/Aravind Kalathil*	Luke Pittman	Kyler Richard	Aravind Kalathil/Gwen Blevins*	Jaden Reed	Brendan Spicer
2021/2022	Paul Odu	Luke Pittman	McKinley Hopkins	Aravind Kalathil	Claire Wilkins	N/A†
2020/2021	Paul Odu	Luke Pittman	N/A†	N/A†	Aravind Kalathil	N/A†

*Kalathil became Director of Programming for the remainder of the 2022/2023 school year following Odu's graduation in December 2022. Blevins took over as Logistics Chair at the same time.

†Position not yet established.