Did the Disciples have Imposter Syndrome, Too?

My first real reporting assignment for America came in the fall of 2016. I went to Guatemala and Honduras with Catholic Relief Services to report on the root causes of migration to the United States. And I was in over my head. I had written plenty of articles in my first three years at the magazine, but all from the safety of my desk. I hadn’t taken a single journalism class or written for my college newspaper. The idea of interviewing strangers, in another language no less, filled me with dread. I hardly felt qualified to go to another country to ask people experiencing levels of poverty and repression completely alien to me to trust me with their stories.