natalia ventura (she/her) is an artist and organizer who lives, works, and hails from San Diego (unceded Kumeyaay territory). She leads a double studio/social art practice that reflects the duality of her borderlands consciousness. Her studio work explores her internal experiences as a Mexican-Cuban-American woman, while her social practice work engages in grassroots organizing for social and environmental justice at the San Diego-Tijuana border. After earning an undergraduate degree in peace studies, natalia apprenticed with several border artists as part of The FRONT Arte y Cultura's New Native Narratives program. Since emerging in her practice, she has been an artist-in-residence for Artists At Work's Borderlands Initiative, a grantee of the Far South/Border North grant, and is currently an artist-in-residence at San Diego Made Factory. natalia aims to simultaneously liberate herself and her community through a creative practice that is rooted in radical love and draws from cultural memory to build collective healing and freedom.