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Letters to Italy by Sara Marinelli is an eighth-part series about the impact of Covid-19 on Italian immigrants in the Bay Area. How did Italian expats feel when they received news of their country being the epicenter of the pandemic in the Western world, and how did it affect their distant relationship to home? At the intersection of personal memoir and documentary, each episode features conversations with an Italian expat to hear how the pandemic reshaped their life in the U.S., and how the ...
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Ep. 8 - Sara Marinelli - Letter to my future self
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In this last episode, writer and producer of "Letters to Italy," Sara Marinelli, concludes the series by reflecting on the conversations with her guests about home, belonging, and Italy during the pandemic; and by sharing a personal letter to her "future self," in which she had imagined the post-quarantine time that has now finally arrived. *** Epi…
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Ep. 7 - Elisabetta Ghisini, Entrepreneur and President of COMITES SF
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The seventh episode of "Letters to Italy" by Sara Marinelli features Elisabetta Ghisini, Entrepreneur and President of COMITES SF. A long time resident of the Bay Area and a very active member in the Italian community, Elisabetta shares how after the first initial moments of crisis due to the shock of the pandemic devastating her native Italian reg…
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Ep. 6 - Laura Inserra, Composer and Musician
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The sixth episode of "Letters to Italy" by Sara Marinelli features Laura Inserra, world-renown hang musician, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. Laura tells the story of how from the restrictions of her Sicilian background, she moved to the Bay Area in 2006 to experiment with new professional possibilities in music and technology. Unable to perfo…
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Ep. 5 - Angelo Greco, Principal Dancer at SF Ballet
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The fifth episode of "Letters to Italy" by Sara Marinelli features Angelo Greco, principal dancer at San Francisco Ballet. Angelo tells the story of how from the prestigious Opera theater of La Scala in Milano, he relocated to San Francisco in order to perform every night. Until everything changed. When the world of performing arts came to a stands…
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Ep. 4 - Lorenzo Ortona, Consul General of Italy in San Francisco
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The fourth episode of "Letters to Italy" by Sara Marinelli features Lorenzo Ortona, Consul General of Italy in San Francisco. Lorenzo Ortona recalls some of the most difficult moments the Italian diaspora on the West Coast went through when Italy was first hit by the pandemic, as well as the challenges that he and his team faced in support of the c…
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Ep. 3 - Lucina Di Meco, Women's Rights Advocate
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The third episode of "Letters to Italy" by Sara Marinelli features Lucina Di Meco, gender expert and women’s rights advocate. She is the author of #ShePersisted. Women, Politics & Power in the New Media World, and serves as the Senior Director of Girls’ Education & Gender Equality at "Room to Read." She grew up in Liguria, and has lived in the USA …
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Ep. 2 - Valentina Imbeni, Founder and Head of La Scuola
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The second episode of "Letters to Italy" by Sara Marinelli features Valentina Imbeni, founder and head of La Scuola International, an Italian-American school in San Francisco fostering the Reggio Emilia's approach to education. Valentina grew up in Bologna, and has lived in the Bay Area for twenty years. La Scuola is one of the few schools in San F…
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Ep. 1 - Sara Marinelli, Writer & Radio-producer - My letters to Italy
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Writer and radio producer Sara Marinelli introduces the series by sharing some of her Letters to Italy that she has been writing since the onset of the pandemic. Through a collage of voice-memos, phone calls, radio news, journal entries, and music recorded on Italian balconies, Sara explores her sense of belonging and ways to connect from afar with…
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Entender las personas a través de su cultura: el reto de la psicoterapia transcultural
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En este episodio hablamos con mi amiga Roberta Panzeri, psicóloga y psicoterapeuta, más precisamente: psicoterapeuta transcultural. Aprendemos las diferentes facetas de la profesión, y las dificultades y la entrega necesarias para entrar en el mundo de los pacientes, siendo su espejo para que ell@s puedan verse y entenderse mejor. También vemos com…
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Ser ingeniera estructural: un juego para toda la vida!
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Hoy hablamos con mi amiga Bea Zapico, ingeniera estructural con vocación cada vez menos latente a la docencia y la arquitectura. Bea vio de jovencita un laboratorio donde se testaban los terremotos...Esta visita resultó ser determinante para su futuro! Lo planeado y lo implaneable hicieron que Bea se especializara en terremotos y estructuras a lo l…
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Más allá de la mirada: que ven en nuestros ojos las ópticas/optometristas
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¡Hoy hablamos con Natalia Cruz, óptima óptica y optometrista optimista!Yo pensaba que ser óptica involucraba solo medir graduaciones, poner gafas y lentillas… ¡Pues como me equivocaba!Natalia nos habla de cómo la visión afecta como nos comportamos, y como interpretamos lo que hay en nuestro entorno.También nos explica que a través de análisis optom…
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La Cocinera Tremenda: la Calabria en Sevilla
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¿ Que se siente al despertar un día, en Roma, y imaginarte tu vida detrás de un escritorio?Pues según Federica, lo ´más lógico es dejarlo todo atrás y intentar montar una tienda de comida casera italiana en Sevilla. La Cocinera Tremenda ya lleva seis años realizando su sueño y su proyecto, deleitando sus clientes, y en particular Elisabetta :)! En …
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Emprender, coordinar, crear: el día a día del e-learning
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Después de una pausa de unas semanas volvemos hoy con el episodio n.12 de She@Work! Hablamos con mi amiga Alba Ramirez, directora de la impresa de formación online "Learn with us" (por si lo queréis ver, esta es la web :www.learnwus.es). Escucha esta charla si te interesa entender: la realidad del emprendimiento, el esfuerzo del día día, más allá d…
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Dentro de las imagines: sueños y realidad de una vida dedicada al arte y a la fotografia
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Hay pasiones que surgen desde muy lejos y se quedan allí detrás, como un ruido de fondo persistente. Te acostumbras tanto a ello que ni lo notas, hasta cuando empiezas a prestarle atención y te das cuenta de que te ha acompañado siempre, de que ha estado allí, intentando comunicarse contigo todo este tiempo…Y así ocurre que el ruido de fondo se tra…
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Las lecciones que no están en los libros: guiar a los estudiantes para que encuentren su propio camino
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Hoy hablamos con mi amiga Prof. Susana Elena, de la Universidad Loyola Andalucía. Susana trabaja en temas empresariales y nos habla sobretodo de su pasión para la docencia universitaria, para este momento de la vida en que se están dando pasos cuyas implicaciones son sin duda enormes y difíciles de imaginar. Nos cuenta de esta incipiente adultez, d…
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Two decades in auditing and control: a professional and personal journey
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-Today She(at)work goes wise and introspective! I talk to one of my oldest friends (meaning early 1990s!), Laura Compte, who has been an internal auditor and controller for the best part of two decades.Age 40ish is a good time to reflect on your professional choices...I guess many of us often go back to the days in which we were studying, cringe at…
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Sociology is not for the faint of heart: on taking the hard path to professional satisfaction and finding ways to transfer knowledge
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Today I speak with my friend Prof. Ana Fernandez. We have been knowing each other for nearly 15 years and I can say Ana is one of the finent policy-analyst I have worked with! She has mastered the ability of applying scientific rigour to policy processes and in the episode we will see what it took to get here. Ana started her adult life planning to…
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Abogada y diseñadora de joyas: hay cosas que, a saber verlas, están claras desde el principio...
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¡Hoy "She @ work" se vuelve local! Desde el centro de Sevilla nos conectamos a Nevión con mi amiga Benita Jurado. Ya en los lejanos años ’80, en la guardería, defendía a otros niños y perforaba las orejas de sus muñecas con sus creaciones ... Ambas actividades continúan 40 años después: ¡es abogada y diseñadora de joyas! Hablaremos de lo divertido …
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On love for teaching and interdisciplinary research
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With this episode "She@work" goes global! Today we speak to my friend Prof. Julia Paranhos, who works at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro! Julia and I met when we were both graduate students at the university of Sussex, as economists with an interest in interdisciplinary research. Fast forward 13 years and we still have much in common. We t…
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On risk, control, procedures and mentoring: auditing with a soul
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Auditors and controllers definitely don’t enjoy a good reputation! 😊 But what does the job really entail? Are auditors really that scary? Today we talk about it with my friend Olivia Verhulst who has been an auditor for a long time! Auditing and control need not be a threatening device! They are just a tool to support businesses across they are act…
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Today we speak with my dear friend Dr. Basak Candamir, who currently manages a small team of analysts in the field of research impact, and whose path has taken many unexpected turns! In our chat, we look into a lot of things, from passions to stigmas to the constraints that reality puts on our choices…First things first: do we really need a passion…
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How a city can fit a whole country (Episode in Italian)
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*This episode is in Italian* In this episode I speak with my friend Agostina Verdini, co-founder of CIS - Centro Italiano di Siviglia, an innovative language school and cultural centre in Seville. We are still in complete lock-down in Spain, still without proper equipment, but if you can glance over the limited audio quality and my nasal voice, the…
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How a city can fit a whole country (Episode in Spanish)
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*This episode is in Spanish*In this episode I speak with my friend Agostina Verdini, co-founder of CIS - Centro Italiano di Siviglia, an innovative language school and cultural centre in Seville. We are still in complete lock-down in Spain, still without proper equipment, but if you can glance over the limited audio quality and my nasal voice, ther…
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How a hurricane revolutionized language learning
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Today we speak with Elena Casillas, founder and director of LinguaMeeting. She had just met her students at her university when hurricane Katrina hit. The city was flooded, she had to leave her home and the world as she knew it was gone. Amidst chaos and with no real technological knowledge she realised one thing: language teaching had to change. I…
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