Giovanni Quaglia is the President of the CRT Foundation, a Lecturer in Economics and Business Management at the University of Turin, and a freelance journalist.
Massimo Lapucci is General Secretary of the CRT Foundation and President of the European Foundation Centre (EFC), the European philanthropy hub in Brussels.
Silvana Ferreri is professor of Modern Language Didactics at the University of Viterbo. She conducts research in Lexicology, Educational Linguistics, text reading and comprehension. Among her books as author or co-author: Lessico colloquiale, La Sicilia linguistica oggi, Centro di studi filologici e linguistici siciliani, L’alfabetizzazione lessicale, Aracne.
Antonella Agnoli has been designing libraries for decades, promoting them as places of culture where people can both study and come together, and she is heavily involved in training activities throughout Italy. She is a member of the Higher Council of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Landscape. Her books include: Le piazze del sapere. Biblioteche e libertà (Squares of Knowledge: Libraries and Freedom), Laterza; Caro sindaco, parliamo di biblioteche (Dear Mayor, Let's Talk About Libraries), Editrice Bibliografica.
Chiara Saraceno is a sociologist and scholar of the Family and its transformations. She taught Sociology of the Family at the University of Turin and was a research professor at the Berlin Social Science Center. Her books include: Cittadini a metà (Half Citizens), Rizzoli; Coppie e famiglie (Couples and Families), Feltrinelli; Mothers and Fathers: Exams Never End, Il Mulino.
Cinzia Sciuto is a philosopher, journalist, editor of MicroMega, and contributor to the European news portal NewsMavens. She focuses on human rights, secularism, and feminism. Her books include: Non c’è fede che tenga. Manifesto laico contro il multiculturalismo (No Faith That Holds: A Secular Manifesto Against Multiculturalism), Feltrinelli; La Terra è rotonda. Kant, Kelsen e la prospettiva cosmopolitica (The Earth Is Round: Kant, Kelsen, and the Cosmopolitan Perspective), Mimesis. Her blog is Animabella.
Edoardo Lugarini provides training in Language Education, Language Teaching, and Italian as a foreign language. He is a lecturer at the Promoitals Master's program of the University of Milan, which trains teachers of Italian as a second and foreign language. His books include: Lingua Italiana L2 per studenti stranieri (Italian as a Second Language for Foreign Students) and L’insegnamento dell’italiano lingua non materna II parte (Teaching Italian as a Non-Native Language, Part II), Edises.
Emergency is an Italian humanitarian association founded in Milan in 1994 (ONLUS and NGO). Its goal is to offer free, high-quality medical and surgical support to victims of war, landmines, and poverty. Thanks to the coordination and activities of volunteers, the association actively promotes the values of peace, solidarity, and respect for human rights.
Francesco Cavalli Sforza studied at Berkeley, Trento, and Milan, where he majored in Philosophy. He first worked as a director and then as an author, publishing popular science books. His books include: Chi siamo. La storia della diversità umana (Who we are. The history of human diversity), Codice; Scienze. Infinite forme bellissime (Science. Infinite beautiful forms), Einaudi.
Francesco Remotti, professor emeritus of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Turin, has conducted ethnographic and ethno-historical research in equatorial Africa and theoretical reflections on identity and similarity, as well as on anthropo-poiesis. His books include: Contro natura. Una lettera al Papa (Against Nature: A Letter to the Pope), Laterza; Noi, primitivi. Lo specchio dell’antropologia (We, Primitives: The Mirror of Anthropology), Bollati Boringhieri.
Gian Enrico Rusconi is an Italian historian, political scientist, and philosopher. He is a professor of Political Science at the University of Turin. He is a columnist for the daily newspaper La Stampa. His books include essays on Italian politics: Se cessassimo di essere una nazione (If we ceased to be a nation), Il Mulino; and historical-political studies on Germany: Germania: un passato che non passa (Germany: a past that does not pass), Come se Dio non ci fosse (As if God did not exist), Einaudi.
Gianrico Carofiglio has written short stories, novels, and essays. His bestsellers have been translated all over the world. He created the hugely popular character of the lawyer Guido Guerrieri. His books include: Testimone inconsapevole (Unwitting Witness) and L’arte del dubbio (The Art of Doubt), Sellerio; Il passato è una terra straniera (The Past Is a Foreign Land), Bancarella Prize; Il silenzio dell’onda (The Silence of the Wave), Finalist for the Strega Prize, Rizzoli; A Changing Truth, Einaudi; With Precise Words. A Breviary of Civil Writing, Laterza.
Guido Formigoni teaches Contemporary History at IULM University in Milan. He is co-editor of the quarterly journal Ricerche di storia politica (Political History Research), published by Il Mulino. His books include: Storia della politica internazionale nell’età contemporanea (History of International Politics in the Contemporary Age), La politica internazionale dal XX al XXI secolo (International Politics from the 20th to the 21st Century), Aldo Moro. The Statesman and His Drama, Catholic Italy. From the Risorgimento to Today, Il Mulino.
Igiaba Scego is a writer and journalist of Somali origin. She is specialized in Pedagogy and Postcolonial issues. She collaborates with Internazionale, L'Unità, and L'Espresso. Her books include the memoir La mia casa è dove sono (My home is where I am), published by Rizzoli, which won the Mondello Prize in 2011, and Adua, published by Giunti.
Marco Rossi-Doria taught in disadvantaged neighborhoods in Rome, Naples, the United States, Kenya, and France. A pioneer in street education, he co-founded the Chance project. He served as Undersecretary of State for Education and received the Gold Medal of the President of the Republic for culture, education, and schooling. His books include La scuola è mondo (School is the World). He received the UNICEF Italy Award for Children, Edizioni Gruppo Abele.
Nicola Crepax is director of the Fondazione per la Scuola della Compagnia di San Paolo (Foundation for Education of the Compagnia di San Paolo) and has taught Economic History and Business History at Bocconi University, Cattaneo University in Castellanza, and the University of Eastern Piedmont. His books include Storia dell’industria in Italia. Uomini, imprese e prodotti (History of Industry in Italy: People, Businesses, and Products), Il Mulino.
Silvia Sordella works in language education at the University of Turin and teaches Italian as a foreign language. Her books include a contribution to Repertori e usi linguistici nell’immigrazione. Una indagine su minori alloglotti dieci anni dopo (Repertories and linguistic uses in immigration. A survey of alloglot minors ten years later), edited by Cecilia Andorno and Maria Chini, Franco Angeli, and Esplorare le lingue in classe. Tools and resources for an éveil aux langues workshop in primary school in Italiano LinguaDue with Cecilia Andorno, ItalianoLinguaDue magazine.
Tindaro Granata actor, playwright, director, winner of the 2016 UBU Award and the 2017 HYSTRIO Twister Award for Best Show of the Year with Geppetto e Geppetto. His shows include: Antropolaroid, Invidiatemi come io ho invidiato voi.
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