For some of us, public speaking will never not be scary, and that’s okay! But with practice, we can reshape the fear, understand that it might be misplaced, and the more we do it, the more we can find the fun in it! What are ways you cope with your public speaking fear?
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Yumna Samie attended ASU all of their undergraduate career and will be attending UMass Amherst for grad school starting in the fall. For their Undergrad, Yumna double majored in English and Communication and for their Graduate degree, they will be focusing on Learning, Media, and Technology. During their undergrad, they participated in the communication and public speaking mentoring lab, CommLabASU and currently works in academic publishing at SAGE publishing, as a Product Associate. Yumna is a first-generation student and their educational path involved going to a 4-year institution after high school.
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