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LA based writer and activist Julissa Arce shares her story as an undocumented immigrant - giving voice to millions of untold stories in the United States. To find out more about the scholarship program mentioned on this episode, visit Ascend Educational Fund. Immigration Stories with Nestor Gomez podcast is a production of 80 Minutes Around the World Immigration Stories.  Closing Credits Music is Cerises by Löhstana David, provided by Jamendo.

Today, we will be talking about:•Focusing on what you can control•Doing the work•Never loosing hope, there is always a way Julissa Arce is a writer, speaker, and social justice advocate and author of MY (UNDERGOUND) AMERICAN DREAM (Hachette Book Group, September 2016). She is the co-founder and chairman of the Ascend Educational Fund, a scholarship fund for immigrant students regardless of their immigration status. Prior to becoming an advocate she built a successful career on Wall Street as a vice president at Goldman Sachs and a director at Merrill Lynch.To learn more about Julissa Arce go to www.julissaarce.com

Julissa Arce, author of "My Underground American Dream," joins us to tell us how she made it in Wall Street while keeping a secret. Now, she is a writer, speaker, and social justice advocate and is the co-founder and chairwoman of the Ascend Educational Fund providing scholarships to immigrant students regardless of status. Find her work at julissaarce.com and follow her at @julissaarce on Twitter. And this episode's music is courtesy of Veronique Medrano check her out at veroniquemedrano.com. Don't forget to follow us @tamarindocast and rate and review our podcast!

Julissa is the director of development at Define American, an organizations that uses the power of story to transcend politics and shift the conversation around citizenship.  She is also the co-founder and Chairman of the Ascend Educational Fund, a college scholarship and mentorship program for New York City immigrant students regardless of their immigration status.  Julissa built a successful career on Wall Street working at Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch and had seemingly achieved the American Dream of wealth and status, and yet she was not part of what defined American.  Arce asked herself, what if she defined American- a woman from Mexico who while undocumented achieved careers success.  Her powerful story has been featured in ELLE Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, Telemundo, MSNBC and others. What you'll learn Julissa's struggle and journey as an undocumented immigrant  What she learned from her parents struggle How Julissa financed her college education working on a funnel cakes stand in another city How she got a job at Goldman Sachs and thrived How she dealt with her feelings of living on borrowed time, feeling that she could be discovered at any time What she learned from the time when her heart was pulling her to go back to Mexico to be with her terminally ill father but yet couldn't leave the country as that would have meant not being able to come back How mentorship guided her helping her succeed at Goldman Sachs "The more we rise to the top, the more we make room for others" The immigrant's characteristics: Sacrifice, perseverance, resrourcefulness, hard work and the ability to conquer adversity The great work Julissa is doing at the Ascend Educational Fund to enable students of exceptional promise to reach their full potential through higher education. Links & Resources Julissa Arce website Ascend Educational Fund Thank you so much for your support and for listening in ! Join my VIP list to get a FREE copy of the Logra Tu Dream book as soon as it gets published ! If you enjoyed the episode, please subscribe on  iTunes  and Stitcher and leave us a rating and a review.  This helps us to reach more Latinos and Latinas.