impostor

“We go through a phenomenon that I call the ‘Latino double impostor syndrome,’” Hayes-Bautista said.

This season, Olagundoye is excited for Olivia’s insecurities and impostor syndrome to reach a peak when she is face to face with her rival: her sister Monica.

But as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, she was just one of a handful of women in the electrical engineering department and sometimes felt like an impostor.

“I suffer from really bad impostor syndrome, so I’m always fine with being ignored for what I feel like I deserve deep down anyway,” she said.

“I’ve had impostor syndrome my whole life. I always have impostor syndrome,” Garcia told the students, many of them Latino.