I welcome my dear friend Natalia Anciso to discuss her journey as an artist and how she's reclaiming healing and joy.

Natalia Anciso is a Chicana-Tejana visual artist, educator, and Rio Grande Valley native. She earned her BA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin, her MFA from the California College of the Arts, and her MA in Education from the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Education. She has exhibited her work throughout the United States and internationally, including the San Jose Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of California, and the National Museum of Mexican Art.  Her work focuses primarily around Identity, as well as human rights, race, class and education. Arts integration and social justice are paramount to her work as an urban educator.  Her contributions as an artist have been acknowledged by The Huffington Post, Latina Magazine, Elle Magazine, and TVyNovelas, as well as by former United States Secretary of Education, John King, Jr. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area