From Undocumented Immigrant to Goldman Sachs Star

Sitting at her desk at Goldman Sachs, Julissa Arce is doing her best to keep it together. It’s Septemberâ?¯2007. Her father is dying in Taxco de Alarcón, a small and hilly city in Mexico, and she has just hung up after a call from her sister with bad news. Arce stands and leaves the row where she and her colleagues create derivatives and market them to rich people. She walks down the hall, opens the bathroom door, and locks herself in a stall.