{"id":1585,"date":"2017-11-01T13:50:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T17:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2017-11-01T13:50:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T17:50:28","slug":"my-underground-american-dream-selected-for-nacacreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/11\/01\/my-underground-american-dream-selected-for-nacacreads\/","title":{"rendered":"‘My (Underground) American Dream’ Selected for #NACACreads"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>An estimated 65,000 undocumented immigrants graduate from US high schools each year.<\/p>\n

In 2001, Julissa Arce was one of those students.<\/p>\n

\u201cI graduated in the top 5 percent of my class,\u201d she wrote in her memoir, My (Underground) American Dream<\/em>. \u201cI was all smiles. My whole family was proud of me. And all of us were worried.\u201d<\/p>\n

Join us Jan. 9 for a #NACACreads<\/a> discussion of Arce\u2019s book and the challenges undocumented students face as they make their way to and through higher education. Arce will participate in the hour-long Twitter chat, which kicks off at 9 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n

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The author\u2019s parents brought her to the United States from Mexico on a tourist visa when she was 11. Despite the obstacles she faced as an undocumented student, Arce graduated from college and went on to become a Wall Street executive.<\/p>\n

She became a US citizen in 2014 and her work is now focused on helping immigrant youth succeed. Arce is the co-founder of Ascend Educational Fund<\/a>, a nonprofit that provides scholarships to students in New York City regardless of ethnicity, national origin, or immigration status. She also serves on the boards of College Spring<\/a> and the National Immigration Law Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Learn more<\/a> about the book and watch Arce share her story<\/a> of living as an undocumented immigrant.<\/p>\n

Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An estimated 65,000 undocumented immigrants graduate from US high schools each year. In 2001, Julissa Arce was one of those students. \u201cI graduated in the top 5 percent of my class,\u201d she wrote in her memoir, My (Underground) American Dream. \u201cI was all smiles. My whole family was proud of me. And all of us … Continue reading ‘My (Underground) American Dream’ Selected for #NACACreads<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16,6],"tags":[364],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access","category-advocacy","category-nacac-news","tag-undocumented-students"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-pz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}