A Mexican American professor who struggled with impostor phenomenon helps others overcome it

Typically, and ironically, it tends to afflict high achievers. In the United States, impostorization also tends disproportionately to affect women, people of color and immigrants or their offspring.

But, she added, many Latinas and Latinos live the reality of impostorization "when they find themselves in an environment where people don't look like them."

"I do research and I've realized that there are quite a few people who feel that," Gutiérrez said.

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