I am a life traveler who landed a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2016. Currently a Ph.D. candidate eager to take off to the Amazon for my long-term fieldwork, I have previously worked as a theatre educator, teacher, human rights activist, and NGO program manager. Originally Italian, I have spent half of my life out of my native country, mainly in the South of the world and in South America. My Ph.D. project investigates the contradictory enforcement of the Rights of Nature in the Colombian Amazon with the recent “Amazon subject with rights” ruling (STC-4360) issued in 2018, and how environmental advocates in Bogotá use and criticize the rights of nature as emerging discourses and claims for environmental justice.

My diverse and growing relationships with plants have been developing during my years in South America, and since 2017 in my fieldwork experiences in Colombia. I live with a lot of plants and I am the proud foster mom of a rich vegetable garden :)