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Letters to ItalyEp. 3 - Lucina Di Meco, Gender Equality Expert and Women's Rights AdvocateThe third episode of "Letters to Italy" 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 since 2007, and in the Bay Area for the last five years.While in Episode 2, Valentina Imbeni told us about the efforts to keep a local school open during the pandemic, Lucina Di Meco speak...2021-05-2819 minLetters to ItalyEp. 2 - Valentina Imbeni, Founder and Head of La ScuolaThe second episode of "Letters to Italy" 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.La Scuola is one of the few schools in San Francisco that offered in-person classes after the first wave of the pandemic. Valentina shares the challenges and efforts to keep the school open, and recounts of her connection to Italy during the peak of the crisis.Episode notesProducer/Editor: Sara MarinelliMixing consultant: Rebecca S...2021-05-2118 min