About

Yasi Hemmat is a Kansas City native and earned her bachelor’s degrees in French and Spanish from the University of Missouri. She attended medical school at the University of Iowa, where she volunteered as a Spanish interpreter for a free medical clinic and spent time studying and volunteering in Peru and Ecuador. She continued to study and speak Spanish during her psychiatry residency at Tulane University in New Orleans. She is currently a practicing psychiatrist and life-long Spanish learner. She is excited to help others begin their own Spanish learning journey!