Natalia Anciso is a Chicana-Tejana contemporary artist and educator. Born in Weslaco, Texas, in 1985, and raised in Mercedes, she is a fifth-generation Tejana whose family has resided along the Texas Borderlands since the Texas Revolution. She is the eldest of three children to Armando and Idalia Anciso. Coming from a long line of migrant farmworkers and laborers, Anciso is the first in her family to graduate from college.
Anciso earned her B.A.