Cecilia Ballí

Cecilia Ballí is a cultural anthropologist and a journalist who has written about the US-Mexico border and Mexican Americans in Texas for more than twenty years. She holds a BA in American Studies and Spanish from Stanford University and a PhD in cultural anthropology from Rice University. Her work has appeared in Texas Monthly, Harper's Magazine, The New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review, and other state and national publications. She is presently a Visiting Scholar at the University of Houston's Center for Mexican American Studies.