"I've had impostor syndrome my whole life. I always have impostor syndrome," Garcia told the students, many of them Latino. "And you guys are gonna have impostor syndrome, too. I have never, in any position I've had, felt like I was either ready walking into it, or I was as prepared as I should be."
Garcia obtained his citizenship when he was a college student and struggled to tell his religious family that he was gay. His parents, hoping to escape domestic terrorism and economic uncertainty in Peru, brought him to the United States when he was 5 and overstayed their visa.
Growing up, he saw his mother clean houses and work at a thrift store before she started working at health clinics. Superman would later become something of a role model for him.
The 46-year-old freshman congressman representing a district centered on Long Beach has risen quickly through the Democratic ranks. He was the city's youngest, first openly gay and first Latino mayor.
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