A proud Italian American, born and raised in New Jersey, Italy was always part of her story, but she had only visited as a child until she returned for a summer in Rome after her first year at Bryn Mawr College.
Little did she know those two months would change the trajectory of her life forever.
Every day she found herself face to face with immense, exceptional and rarified beauty, even in the most mundane things.
When Fosca set foot in Florence it was love at first sight and something magical happened.
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.
