I am a proud Italian American, born and raised in New Jersey.
Italy was always a part of my story, but I had only visited as a child until I returned for a summer in Rome after my first year at Bryn Mawr College.
Little did I know that those two months would change the trajectory of my life forever.
Every day I found myself face to face with immense, exceptional and rarified beauty, even in the most mundane things.
When Fosca D’Acierno, a neo-traveler, set foot in Florence, it was love at first sight and something magical happened. Even at that age, I knew it was where I was meant to be.
After a year of study abroad in Florence, graduate work in Italian Studies at Brown University, and some back and forth between the US and Italy, I finally packed my bags and took the leap definitively.
I moved to Italy, got married, had a baby, divorced, dated as an adult, and even found love again. I have bought and sold homes and did several jobs before settling into my more than two-decade career in study abroad at Stanford University.
I am raising my bilingual and bicultural daughter here, and have seen her go from private daycare up until public high school (where we are right now). I even managed to get my Italian driver’s license, perhaps the most challenging thing I ever had to do in Italy!
I am in a privileged position of cultural fluency and have deep knowledge of the territory and a vast, diversified and trusted network of collaborators, partners and professionals that I want to share with you.
