Speaker
Higher Ed Professor
Georgia Southern University Armstrong Campus
Savannah, GA, US
Media & Speech Communication, Communication Studies
15+ Years of Experience
Masters degreeUniversity of Florida
Karla Jennings is one of two full-time professors for the communication studies major at the Armstrong Campus of Georgia Southern University. In the more than 13 years she has been teaching at both Armstrong and the College of Coastal Georgia, she has taught public speaking to more than 2,000 students and has listened to (and graded!) hundreds and hundreds of speeches. She studied communication and public relations as an undergraduate at Florida State University and then went to rival University of Florida for her master’s degree. She has worked in public relations and marketing for the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Unison Industries – an aircraft ignition systems manufacturer, and for the Coastal Georgia Center for Continuing Education. In 2018, Professor Jennings was the opening speaker for TEDxSavannah, with a talk about fear of public speaking. She still serves as a speaker coach for TEDxSavannah and remains passionate about “ideas worth spreading” through TED Talks.
Designing a Response to Fear of Public Speaking
TEDxSavannah 2018 - 05/2018
Savannah, GA, USA
Florida State University
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