Chad T. Sarchio, the immediate past president of the D.C. Bar, spoke to an appreciative group of AMHS members and guests on February 12, 2023, at Il Canale restaurant in Georgetown, describing his legal career and his Italian-American upbringing. Following a delicious lunch, Chad spoke to about 25 attendees on how his own values were shaped by his...

Generation Z, better known as Gen Z, was at the center of a panel discussion hosted yesterday by the Embassy of Italy in Washington on "From A to Gen Z: Activism and Influence in the Social Media Age," which featured some 30 leaders-including young and very young-to address topics such as activism in the digital age, politics and digital, the role...

At this year’s 57th annual Super Bowl, where the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Philadelphia Eagles in Phoenix, Arizona, Francesco and Enzo Marra, Neapolitan immigrants and residents of the Washington, DC area churned out thousands of pizzas for the occasion. The Super Bowl’s  audience of 113 million people, connected between TV and streaming, was the...

We celebrated our ties of service and friendship today with a visit to the Italian Embassy in Washington, D.C. where we met with First Counselor Michela Carboniero and Education Office Director Maria Fusco to discuss the valuable contributions of Italians in the American Revolution and DAR’s official tour to Italy in November 2023. I am proud of my...

The Embassy of Italy in Washington hosted the annual meeting of the Council for Italy-U.S. Relations in America, after a two-year interruption due to the pandemic. The Ambassador of Italy to the U.S., Mariangela Zappia received participants on the evening of Feb. 6 at Villa Firenze. In addition to the Ambassador, Assistant Secretary for Europe and...

On Friday, January 20th, 2023, Veronica Di Grigoli took members of the National Capital Lawyers Auxiliary on a virtual journey called “Escape to Sicily.” Little did they know it should really have been called, “A Taste of Sicily.” In an ingenious presentation, Di Grigoli guided the audience through 13 separate invasions of Sicily by highlighting th...

Wednesday February 15th, 2023 at 6.30 pm. "NABUCCO" with the WASHINGTON CONCERT OPERA. Embassy of Italy - 3000 Whiteheaven Street NW - Washington, DC 20008. RSVP HERE. The evening is a preamble to the Washington Concert Opera’s Nabucco scheduled to be performed on March 4, 2023, in the Lisner Auditorium. For more information about this event visit...

A.I.R.E. REGISTRATION. A.I.R.E. registration requests or changes submitted via FAST IT will be given priority processing over those submitted via other means effective February 1, 2023. PASSPORTS. The Consular Offices of the Embassy of Italy in Washington D.C. have introduced the option of using a "priority lane" for making an appointment with the...

Students enrolled in Donatella Melucci’s course on Italian Translation face one of the most difficult assessments in all of higher education. Their work, once translated, is reviewed by the original Italian authors and its publishers before the final product hits bookstore shelves with their names attached.  Melucci, a teaching professor in the Dep...

The Embassy of Italy in Washington, D.C. issues a call for proposals to select a company, through a bid process, for the digitalization service of the consular archive with 12.000 files. This call for proposals is aimed to companies that meet the requirements described above, and that have the expertise, and the technical and management resources t...