Rebecca Branconi

Rebecca Branconi, Ph.D., is an Academic Affiliate of Biology at Pennsylvania State
Rebecca Branconi, Ph.D., is an Academic Affiliate of Biology at Pennsylvania State
Marijke Huegaerts was born and raised in Brussels (Belgium), where she also earned her B.A. in modern languages and management (1980). Following graduation she worked for a Dutch - Hungarian joint-venture in Brussels. In 1985 she spent 6 months in Australia traveling and working for a convention center. Upon her return to Brussels she worked as Management Assistant at Right Associates Inc., the first American outplacement company in Belgium.
Cristiana Milli was born in Florence, where she studied classical languages
Sylvie Duvernoy is an architect, graduated from Paris University in 1982. Later in 1998 she received her PhD degree from the Architecture Department of the University of Florence, specializing in architectural drawing and representation.
After high school, Luca Carosi began working as a plumber and general maintenance worker in a tourist resort. In 2004 he moved to Florence where he worked as a gardener and in 2008 he graduated from the university of Pisa with a degree in Social Service Science. In 2008 he began working at a Study Abroad Arts program in Florence as Assistant Health and Safety Officer and Assistant Facility Manager. He joined the staff of Kent State University Florence in 2022 as Facility Manager.
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 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 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.
Giorgio Ridolfi earned his undergraduate degree i