When Yanela Frias, the first woman to be named CFO of Prudential Financial, looks out her office window from the company’s headquarters in downtown Newark, she can see the Golden Dome Athletic Center and other landmarks of the Rutgers-Newark campus where her higher educational journey began.
Her first accounting class at Rutgers University–Newark is where everything clicked for her.
“I just remember thinking ‘Wow, I really get this—it makes so much sense to me,’” said Frias, who graduated from the School of Arts and Sciences-Newark in 1993. “I'm a very logical person, and accounting just really resonated with me. That’s the one class I really remember because the light bulb went off.”
Her experience as an undergraduate inspired her to enroll in the Rutgers Business School in Newark for a graduate degree, which she earned in 2000.
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