Cecilia Ballí (born April 21, 1976) is an American journalist and anthropologist who writes about the borderlands of Texas, security and immigration.
She has been an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin[1] and was a staff writer at the San Antonio Express-News from 1998 to 2000.
Cristina Ballí described their father, who died in 1987 when Cecilia was 11 years old, as "a cultural anthropologist, without an education.
"[2] Cecilia Ballí attended Homer Hanna High School in Brownsville and graduated valedictorian in 1994.
[10] In 2008, Ballí joined the anthropology department at the University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor where she remained until 2014.
[1] At the time, she told the Statesman that years of researching and writing about violence left her with post-traumatic stress.
In 2008, she was a distinguished finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award given by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.