Date/Time
Thursday 10/13/2022
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Exploring the Italian Community by the Bay
A conversation with journalist Serena Perfetto
The San Francisco Bay Area is home to thousands of Italians who moved to the US for different reasons, at different times, and with different outcomes. They work in technology or are scientists, they navigate the food industry as restaurant owners and importers; they run construction companies or work as architects and designers.
The Bay Area has been enriched by the expertise Italians carried with them. They left the country they love to embrace a new life and career opportunities, and they won’t give up connections with other fellow Italians from the community. In this context, many associations and groups were founded, with the idea of keeping the legacy with Italy alive and giving opportunities to meet and share roots.
Serena will talk about what makes this community so vibrant, the organizations that contribute to it, and how, during the pandemic, values like strength, resilience, and solidarity shone as never before.
BIO: Serena Perfetto, born and raised in Lecce in Puglia, studied Political Science at the Alma Mater Studiorum in Bologna and earned a Master’s Degree in Communication and Media from LUISS Guido Carli in Rome. Serena worked in the foreign editorial office of Repubblica and took part in the MAE-Crui as a fellow student at the Italian Embassy in Wellington in New Zealand.
After these experiences, thanks to a scholarship from the Puglia Region – Back to the Future, she obtained a Masters in International Journalism at Birmingham City University in England, where she studied with professors from the BBC London and West Midlands.
In 2012, Serena moved to California and has put her experience and knowledge at the service of tech companies, such as Google, Airbnb, and Pinterest where she deals with product internationalization and education.
Since 2013, Serena has been part of the Board of the BAIA – Business Association Italy America, a non-profit organization that offers Italians and Italian Americans networking and business opportunities through events, panels and partnerships with other local associations.
Since 2014, he has collaborated with the Italo-Americano newspaper, the historic magazine of the Italian-Americans of the West Coast, as a leading journalist on the San Francisco page. With her articles and interviews, Serena tells the stories of the Italian and Italian American community in the Bay Area.
Cost of the Event:
Free to members | $10 to Non members
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