On Friday, The Margaret Sloss Women’s Center will present the third Feminist Friday, a new initiative to facilitate conversations on topics related to gender equality at the university.

This event will be held from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m in the Sloss House and is titled “Overcoming Imposter Syndrome.”

Imposter syndrome is a concept describing people who have an inability to internalize their accomplishments and have a persistent fear of being exposed as a fraud. 

This will be presented by Dr. Dawn Bratsch-Prince, associate provost for faculty and professor of Spanish. 

Bratsch-Prince received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Spanish from New York University and her Ph. D. at the University of California, Berkeley in romantic philology. 

Bratsch-Prince has been a member of the Iowa State faculty since 1990.

She was chair of the department of world languages and cultures from 2002 to 2008 and, in 2005, she received the college award for Outstanding Departmental Leadership, followed by the university award in 2006.

The goal of this initiative is to invite people to critically engage in topics, current events and pop culture from a feminist perspective. In the future, faculty from across campus will be invited to spend an hour to help the conversation.