Many places, one person
I was born in Rome on a Sunday morning in August 2002. Italian by passport, but shaped by everywhere else. Raised by a resilient single mother, my childhood unfolded across continents: six years in Romania, three in El Salvador, five in Germany, and eventually the Netherlands, where I began studying Sustainability Science.
Moving so much could have felt rootless. Instead, it gave me something I wouldn't trade: the ability to feel at home in difference, to listen before assuming, and to see the world as layered and complex. Every country left something behind, a way of seeing, a question, a sense of what matters.
Rooted
It started with a biologist who walked into my elementary school classroom in El Salvador and spoke about soil organisms with the kind of urgency that makes you sit up straight. He told us that the future of nature was in our hands. What hooked me was not just the science, but the weight of that responsibility.
Living in El Salvador made that feeling tangible. Nature wasn't an abstract concept. It was the volcano I could see from the park, the landscape woven into everyday life and culture. That closeness taught me early that environmental issues are never just environmental. They're social, political, and deeply human.
That awareness has shaped everything since. What started as a sense of stewardship, a drive to protect, has grown into something more humbling. A recognition that nature doesn't need managing, it needs respecting. It's a distinction that quietly shapes how I think about everything.
Today, I work at the intersection of sustainability and systems change. I'm drawn to the spaces where science meets policy, where top-down institutions have to reckon with bottom-up realities, and where questions about who gets to decide sit at the heart of environmental governance. Political ecology, agriculture, social innovation... What connects them for me is a belief that lasting change is never just technical. It's cultural, relational, and political too.
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