Comic strip: "Impostor Syndrome" by Alyssa Napier, 2015

The drawings and writings of chemistry major Alyssa Napier ‘16 began to appear in The Tech in 2014 under “Intuitively Obvious,” a column inspired by the murder of Michael Brown at the hands of police in Ferguson, MO.

Timeline: 2010s

School: School of Science

Department: Chemistry

Life: Black Students' Union (BSU)Black Women's Alliance (BWA)

Career: Arts & HumanitiesEducation

Object: Document

Collection: Illustrations, Recruitment, Rising Voices 1995-Present, Students, Women

External Link: https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/thetech-production-assets/issues/pdfs/000/009/256/original/tech_pdf.pdf?0=

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