Skills & Qualifications

    • Strategic planning and problem solving

    • Project development, design, implementation and evaluation

    • Relationship building and growth

    • Team building and empowerment

    • Reflective practice

    • Collaboration

    • Organisational learning and change management

    • Editing

    • Coaching and mentorship

    • Ability to see the big picture in the details

    • Accountability

    • Agility

    • Cultural competency

    • Curiosity

    • Determination

    • Empathy

    • Flexibility

    • Integrity

    • Passion

    • Purpose-driven approach

    • Resilience

  • Office Suite, iWork Suite, Google Suite, Adobe Acrobat Pro, Adobe Spark, Canva, Squarespace, Hootsuite, Scrivener

  • English (expert), Italian (fluent)

  • Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Scuola Normale Superiore
    PhD (Studies in Visual Culture)
    2016
    Recipient of a full scholarship.
    Thesis: “Learning Resilience: The Role of Learning in Creating Sustainable Organisational Change in Cultural Organisations”.


    Syracuse University
    MA (Art History)
    2009
    Recipient of the Florence Fellowship in Renaissance Art History.
    Thesis: “Chapel or Chapterhouse? The Patronage of the Artists' Chapel at Santissima Annunziata”.

    University of Sydney
    BA (Art History and Theory)
    1998

    • CELTA Cambridge English Level 5 Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

  • "From the Gallery Floor - Reflections on Everyday Intersections between Education and Religion" in Religion in Museum Education, Maia Wellington Gahtan, ed., (Florence: LdM Press, 2023).

    La Pinacoteca di Brera: Come la vedo io. Una guida per famiglie, (Milan: Skira, 2019).

    Contributing texts in Monkey in the Middle, the family book accompanying the exhibition Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino, James M. Bradburne, ed., (Florence: Mandragora, 2014).

    Contributing texts in Easy Money. A Family and Children’s Guide, the family book accompanying the exhibition Money and Beauty. The Bankers, Botticelli and the Bonfire of the Vanities, Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, ed., (Florence: Giunti, 2011).

    Contributing texts in Di dove sono? A quale luogo appartengo?, the family book accompanying the exhibition Picasso, Miro, Dali. Angry Young Men: The Birth of Modernity, James M. Bradburne, ed., (Florence:Skira, 2011).

    “Visual Poetry: Translating the Divina Commedia into Images” in Omaggio a Dante: Quinto Martini, Luciano and Teresa Martini, eds., (Florence: Aiòn Edizioni, 2006).