Julissa Arce

From the time she was brought to this country by her hardworking parents as a child, Julissa Arce — the scholarship winner, the honors college graduate, the young woman who climbed the ladder to become a vice president at Goldman Sachs — had secretly lived as an undocumented immigrant.

Born in the picturesque town of Taxco, Mexico, Julissa Arce was brought to Texas at the age of eight to join her parents, who had already moved north. From then on, Julissa secretly lived as an undocumented immigrant, went on to become a scholarship winner and an honors college graduate, and climbed the ladder to become a vice president at Goldman Sachs. Julissa's story provides a deep look into the little-understood world of a new generation of undocumented immigrants in the United States today.