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The seventh Faculty Pub Night of the 2025-26 season features Angélica S. Gutiérrez, professor of management (College of Business Administration). She will discuss her recent publications on the topic of "impostorization."

About Faculty Pub Night

Students, staff, faculty, alumni, and members of the public are all invited to the 2025-26 series of Faculty Pub Night at the William H. Hannon Library. Eight LMU professors are selected annually to discuss their latest publication or project in a comfortable setting and format that welcomes diverse perspectives for an inclusive conversation aimed to educate the entire community. All Faculty Pub Nights are free and open to the public.

About the Author's Work

While impostor syndrome, which refers to feelings of inadequacy that individuals experience and a fear that they will be discovered as a fraud, has garnered much attention, my research on racially minoritized women in academia suggests that the more vexing issue in academia is impostorization not impostor syndrome. Impostorization refers to the policies, practices, and seemingly innocuous interactions that make or intend to make individuals (i.e., women of color) question their intelligence, competence, and sense of belonging. Forms of impostorization include microaggressions, grateful guest syndrome, invisibility, and inclusion taxation. My studies reveal the implicit and explicit ways in which academia impostorizes women scholars and the coping strategies that they use to navigate and survive within academia. In all, this work is a call to change the narrative from impostor syndrome to impostorization, and employ measures to address its effects.

About the Author

Angélica S. Gutiérrez, Ph.D. earned her B.A. in political science and sociology with honors at UCLA, M.P.P at the University of Michigan, Ph.D. at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Institutional Diversity and the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. 
 
Recognized as one of the “World’s Best 40 Under 40 Business Professors,” Gutiérrez teaches leadership, negotiations, and diversity management at the undergraduate and graduate (MBA, MScM, Executive MBA) levels at Loyola Marymount University in the College of Business Administration. Additionally, she is a contributor for Inc. Magazine and writes articles on diversity, minority businesses, negotiations, and impostor syndrome.  
Gutiérrez coined the term "impostorization," which refers to the policies, practices, and seemingly innocuous interactions in organizations that make (or intend to make) individuals question their intelligence, competence, and sense of belonging. She has presented her research on impostor syndrome and impostorization at national and regional academic conferences, and for organizations in the non-profit, public, and private sectors, including the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, SoCal Gas, Kraft-Heinz, Hispanic Chambers of Commerce, The Wonderful Company, Hasbro, Mattel, Abbott, Google, Fullscreen Studios, Morgan Stanley, Hyundai, and universities across the nation. 
Consistent with her commitment to reducing gender and racial pay disparities, Gutiérrez also teaches employment negotiations to organizations that serve minoritized groups, including National Latina Women Business Association, Riordan Programs, Adelante Mujer Latina, UCLA Black Business Student Association, Latino Alumni Association, Asian American Pacific Islander Association, Women In Tech, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, The PhD Project, and Harvard Medical School – Cambridge Health Alliance.  

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