May 3, 2021
Unlike most pre-med students, Hussna Yasini didn’t major in biology. Instead, the Colorado native majored in Spanish with a mathematics minor. Why? “Because I want to be able to connect with my future patients using their native tongue,” she said.
Effective communication is particularly important to Yasini because she is the child of Afghan refugees. “In 1979, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, which caused my mom to grow up in a war zone,” she said. “When the beautiful country she once knew was ripped to shreds, bombed beyond oblivion, and torn apart by years of war, she decided to move to the United States.”