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Simran Goyal


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Simran Goyal spoke on the effects of ‘becoming a yes woman’ as she transitioned from secondary school to university, and finally into the corporate world. High school proved challenging, as she struggled to find people her age to relate to during a time that was punctuated with change. However, she resolved to engage in a variety of activities including touch football (playing and coaching), the debate team, and leadership positions. Between her determination to try new things and the array of assistive technology available to her, she flourished. She found university remarkably inclusive; UNSW provided her with emailed lecture notes, in-class note-takers, and reformatted study spaces – all of which encouraged her to keep going. She’s now taking on the less equipped spaces of the professional world with her ‘yes woman’ attitude and has launched into a new hobby of photography.
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