Volume 15, Number 3, Winter 2020

The Burden of Imposter Syndrome: A Student Perspective

AUTHOR:

  • Amira Jessie, B.A., Department of Communicative Disorders, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS [ERRATUM NOTICE]

When ASHA published its initial inclusion statement of “All live matters” in response to the George Floyd incident, many of my Black classmates, peers across the profession, and I were hurt and felt even more alienated in a profession dominated by middle class white women. When a hurting child comes to a parent for comfort, the parent does not say, “I love all of my children equally,” in response to that hurt. So, our faculty and socially proactive students united to provide an opportunity to faculty and students to share, to grieve, and to grow.

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