Speakers:
Umberto Mucci has a degree in Political Sciences International Address and an Advanced degree in Marketing and Communication. He is the Founder and CEO of We the Italians. He represents in Italy the Italian American Museum of New York. He has been the co-director of “èItalia for USA”, a bimestral magazine regarding Italy in the US, and is Founder and has been Secretary General of Fondazione Roma Europea. He has been Head of International Relations of Innovarte for the exhibition “Italian Logos – Testimonies of the art to excel”, and Head of the Diplomatic section of the magazine “Romacapitale”.
Mike J. Pilla was born in Naples in December, 1982. Journalist and tv presenter, as well as passionate reader, he is the editor-in-chief of online news site Montaguto.com, which since its inception has attracted the interest of Montaguto natives across the world. in 2018, he founded Patrimonio Italiano TV, a webtv for Italians living abroad. He travels extensively throughout Europe and North America. His first novel, Goodbye Irpinia (2019), is dedicated to all Italians living abroad and is hailed as the first Paper novel in the world.
Stefano Salimbeni is a journalist by “vocation”. From Boston, base camp and starting point of his countless U.S. wanderings, he shows – and tells – America to Italians, both in Italy and around the world, collaborating as a reporter and, if necessary, as a producer, with RAI, Italy’s National Public Television Network. In particular, since 2000, he has been producing and signing Italian or Italian-American themed services of varying length (from 2 to 30 minutes depending on the program) for RAI Italia, the international channel of the network aimed at Italians residents of non-European countries.
IDEA Boston is an Italian-inspired festival celebrating authors, books and culture, and organized by independent bookstore I AM Books, situated in Boston's North End neighborhood.
