Who we are

Giovanna Abbiati

After my Master in Bioethics, with a thesis on Bioethic and manga, I started to work on education. I was the project leader of the Institute of Higher Studies on Women at the UPRA University. During that time I’ve partnered with Google to design a Master  program on New Media for catholic nuns and missionaries to enhance education on disatvantage environments (hospitals, migrants, poor villages).
I spent the next 15  years to work in the non-profit sectors. I’ve devoted my last 6 years to advocate for children palliative care worldwide at the Maruzza Foundation. As an advocate I’ve been a speaker at the WHO, UN and the Vatican. Published in Springer,  in the Children’s Palliative Care: An International Case-Based Manual. 

Today , I am in charge  of unaccompanied foreign minors (UFMs) in  a small scale housing facility in Rome.

During these years I never stopped my passion: writing. I’ve published three books, the Pillystar Saga and in 2020 Mountain Breeze.

Esther Marconi

With a Master’s Degree in Architecture  and an Executive MBA, I started my professional career in the  fields of university lecturing and journalism, with articles and television reports.

I worked in various companies of  the Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane  Group, as Chief Human Resources Officier.

For example, at Italferr SpA, the engineering company, whose mission was to design and build the new high-speed railway lines in Italy and to export its know-how worldwide,  I was responsible for incorporating new subsidiaries in Turkey, Oman, Saudi Arabia, UAE, US, Algeria, Perù, managing personnel, both on Italian and foreign sites. In the Holding Company of the  FS Group I was in charge of   Merger And Acquisition initiatives, to acquire  some European  companies, in Greece, Germany, UK and the Netherlands. I was member of the Board of Directors of these companies and  ensured their process of integration in the Group’s governance system.

Currently, I carry out business consulting activities on  internationalization and I organise cultural projects  and events.

Francesca D’Asaro Biondo

I’m French-Italian, and after a Master’s Degree in Political Sciences, I began working as a Parlamentary assistant.  I then have been devoted to the upbringing of my children in their young age, while working at communication projects.

From 2011, I first collaborated with the Institute of Higher Studies on Women at the UPRA University, and then at the European University of Rome, exploring my passion for technology (I was part of the team organizing TexViadellaConciliazione and then later, TedxRoma) and developing an awareness of women’s needs that drove me to be the communication advisor for Grandmotherproject, an ONG whose  mission  is to improve the health and well-being of women, children and families in countries in the Global South.