You might call it a cross-continental coincidence that Julia Fonseca is starting her professional career at Gies College of Business. The new assistant professor of finance, who was born and raised more than 5,000 miles away in Brazil, will walk the same campus streets as her parents, who both earned their PhDs at Illinois – her father in economics and her mother in chemical engineering.
“I had actually visited here once as a teenager, while my dad was visiting, so I did know