Welcome to Boston, Capital of Italian Creativity in the World for 2024
Among the most fascinating American cities to host and represent the relationship between Italy and the United States, certainly Boston, Massachusetts, New England is very important. Here past and future, tradition and innovation meet, and Italian creativity is well represented by many researchers and innovators. This year Boston has one more reaso...
Andrea Cammarato-Van Benschoten (Author of the book "Italians of Newark: A History")
Until a few years ago there were ten Italian Consulates in the United States, because there was also one in New Jersey, in Newark. It was a very bad choice to close it ten years ago, in my opinion, because the area is very populated with Italians and Italian Americans, and the two Consulates in New York and Philadelphia, which had to share the resp...
Fabrizio Ricciardelli (President of the Association of American College and University Programs in Italy)
For those who like us are relentlessly dedicated to promoting everything related to the relationship between Italy and the United States, with a special eye on the Italian American community, the phenomenon of study abroad that brings thousands of American students to Italy every year is extremely important. The Association of American College and...
Nicola Vidali (Managing Director of the Georgia chapter of the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce Southeast)
Inevitably, sometimes I happen to publish an interview with someone who, in addition to playing an important role in the development of relations between Italy and the United States, is also a friend of mine. It happens because We the Italians collaborates cool best of the community of those who live Italy and the United States with two flags and o...
Cornelia Pop (Founder of Italian Women USA)
It is a pleasure in this new interview to host someone who, before emigrating from Italy to the United States, came from another country to Italy. The relationship between the emigration of those who become new Italians and the emigration of those who move to America from being Italians is fascinating, and Cornelia Pop, whom we welcome to We the It...
Giulia Silvia Ghia (Councilor for Culture of the 1st Municipality of Rome)
One of the many advantages of leading We the Italians is that of knowing and collaborating with truly extraordinary people, who also here in Italy contribute to improving and maintaining the rapport of friendship between Italy and the United States. One of these wonderful people is Giulia Ghia. I call her Minister, because being Councilor for Cultu...
Saverio Nestico (President of Filitalia International)
Ten years ago a museum of exceptional passion for our country dedicated to Italian emigration was born in Philadelphia. It was Filitalia International that created it, a wonderful organization founded by a remarkable man, Pasquale Nestico. Today his son Saverio heads Filitalia, and he is one of those leaders who guarantee the Italian American commu...
Stefaan Missinne (Author of the book "Leonardo da Vinci and Verrazzano's Royal Discovery of New York")
April 17, 2024, marks the 500th anniversary of the first entry of someone from the Old World into New York Bay. It was, of course, an explorer from the lands now called Italy: Giovanni da Verrazzano. We the Italians could not miss this very important date with history. We talk about it with admiration, pride and gratitude, hosting a great researche...
Chiara Parisi and Cristina Carabetta (Authors of the paper "The Racial and Ethnic Categorization of Italian Americans")
Among the really interesting topics contained in the weekend of the second annual meeting of the Italian American Future Leaders, which I attended as a mentor last January, was one that caught me a little unprepared. Two friends, two young women who divide their lives between Italy and the United States, two lawyers who are members of the National...
George Bochetto (Lawyer in defense of Christopher Columbus)
Many times we have described the historical and cultural reasons why attacks on Columbus are based on falsehoods, unacceptable and wrong. The Italian American comity is defending itself and the symbol it has chosen, in different ways. One of these ways is the legal way. Those who removed the Columbus statues and cancelled Columbus Day, not only obe...
Tessa Floreano (Author of the book "Italians in the Pacific Northwest")
Let’s begin the new year of interviews by moving to one of the American territories farthest from Italy, the Northwest. The protagonists of the book written by Tessa Floreano are Idaho, Oregon and Washington, three states that are not among the best known in our country nor among those that have welcomed Italian emigrants the most. But as we have o...
Maurizio Mancianti (President of Tuscan American Association)
The bond that unites Tuscany with the United States is extraordinary in many ways. Tuscany is not only the Italian region most loved by Americans, it is also the one that hosts the most American students. In 2019 the 200th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the United States, then a young democracy, and the Grand Duchy of Tuscany was celeb...