Laura Fenelli
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Miriam Daquino
Native to northern Italy, Miriam Daquino received her Architecture Master’s Degree from the University of Florence in 2009. Among her academic experiences there is the participation to the Erasmus program, the European study abroad program, through which she obtained a scholarship for the Universidad Politècnica de Valencia (Spain).
After graduation, she entered the hospitality industry and started working for major Tuscan and international luxury brands as receptionist and guest relations agent.
Marco Brizzi
Marco Brizzi is architecture critic and curator. He graduated from the Università degli Studi di Firenze, the city where he lives, and holds a PhD in Architecture.
Elisa Varlaro
Elisa Varlaro received her bachelor's degree in modern languages and cultures in 2019 and master's degree in modern languages and literatures in 2022 from the University of Calabria. During her university career, she furthered her studies at the University of Huelva (ES) and won an English literature scholarship in Cambridge at Wolfson college. In January 2020 she participated in a conference on gender studies and in 2021 a conference on post-colonial studies.
Maia Gahtan
A native of Berkeley, California, Maia Wellington Gahtan received her B.A. in both History of Art and Linguistics and her Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies from Yale University. She is the recipient of grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation and Villa I Tatti. Formerly a curator at Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, and Program Director of the M.A.
Francesca Passeri
Francesca Passeri, Ph.D., is Professor of Branding and Social Media Strategies for Italian Lifestyle and Professor of Luxury Market at Kent State University Florence Center. She earned a BA at the School of Law (1998) and an MA in Communication and Media (2000) from The University of Florence and a PhD in Information Communication Technology (2012) from the University of Florence.
Cecilia Angeletti
Cecilia Angeletti received her university degree in Economics in 1999 from the University of Perugia. In 2000 she took a course in business English language at the University of Bath. In the same year she took a Master class in “European Funding and Programmes” in Brussels, where she also worked in public relations office for Italian Development Partners European Consultants.