Passion Projects
CIRCI
International Centre for Research in the Culture of Childhood
CIRCI was created as an intellectual space to preserve, study, and communicate the experience of childhood, and the values of curiosity, creativity and learning. We believe in the importance of childhood in creating an open civil society that recognizes diversity, freedom, and human rights. Our mission is to defend children's competence, imagination, ambition, and desires.
I am a co-founder of the association and serve on the Advisory Board.
the Edge
The Edge is a multi-disciplinary, campaigning built environment think tank. Members meet monthly to share ideas, debate, and discuss how they can contribute to change.
I am a member.
Post-colonial Italy
“Postcolonial Italy” is a collaborative project that falls into the field of digital public history. It aims at capturing and documenting material traces that are visible in the public space and, thus, stimulating a public debate on Italy’s silenced colonial history.
I contribute to the project through translations and editing.
The Recovery Project / Black History Month Florence
Connecting a range of Afrodescendent communities local to Italy with a broad-based network of cultural institutions and universities transnationally, the Recovery Project nourishes an archive and library for the study of Afrodescendent cultures in support of the training and support of its partners.
I am part of the Outreach Team.
The Book Initiative
The Book Initiative was created in 2020 to increase diversity in the stories and representations of illustrated children's literature in the Italian language. We believe that transforming bookshelves so they fully reflect the world we live in, in all its diversity, is a powerful path towards creating a better, more just world. TBI is currently dormant while it seeks funding.
I founded TBI along with an incredible group of like-minded mothers.