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Good ability in working as part of a team, acquired through my active participation in many working groups, including with international and national Institutions. Ability to work in a multicultural environment where people in different capacities need to work together, including National coordination tables.
Excellent skills in involving different target groups and audiences besides strong ability to promote volunteering, in my capacity of president and founder of the Romni APS association and ROWNI- Roma women network Italy APS; excellent networking skills acquired by linking over the years with other organizations, academia, journalists, legal professionals and so forth in Italy and abroad.
Good communication and public-speaking skills gained through my commitments as speaker in conferences, assemblies, round tables, etc., including under EU-CoE JUSTROM Programme (2017-2022), under which I worked since Phase 1 as mediator.
Excellent ability to working with fragile and vulnerable people, as acquired also thanks to my work with migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers.
Leadership: currently national coordinator for different EU projects.
Good abilities of coordinating working groups with people of various cultural and social backgrounds in Italy and abroad(Balkan countries).
Excellent experience in project management
Excellent self-starter skills, having founded an NGO for the promotion of Roma women rights and advocacy capabilities.
Excellent organizational skills as acquired in years of community-related work for Roma people, especially women. I set up a wide network among women of the Roma community in Italy and abroad, also through the launch and management of a very active Facebook page.
Consultant on Roma participation and inclusion, especially of Roma women, Researcher, Projects Coordinator, Expert and Trainer on human rights and non-discrimination in various EU and national projects, Intercultural mediator, Founder & President of Romni NGO, Founder & President ROWNI-Roma women network Italy, legal interpreter, author and host of the broadcast Asunen Romalen in Italian, Serbian and Romani for Colors Radio (broadcast in about 24 languages, with daily connections from all over the world).

• Rome, July / December 2011, mediator and coordinator for Romni onlus NGO, under Roma Education Fund, with regard to the project “Roma inclusion in Italy, national education and employment strategies and actions”, funded by the Open Society Foundation.
• The public meeting „Weaving the network – Being Romni: Roma women here and now“, was devised by Saška Fetahi Jovanović, president of Romni Onlus.
• Rome, July 2012 – consultant for the project House of Rights FOCUS Project on “Guidelines for Intercultural citizenship “ ( under FEI), co-financed by the European Fund for the integration of citizens from third countries – Year 2011 – Action 3.
• Warsaw, Poland, 26 to 27 September 2012 – participation in the round-table of the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting – Roma and Sinti Consultation Meeting.
• Rome, September 2013 – expert for Roma Tre University Project – Focus on “Intercultural Orientation Project” (under FEI) as co-financed by the European Fund for the integration of nationals from third countries – Year 2012 – Action 3.
• April 4, 2014 – Brussels, invited as participant in the 3rd International Summit of Roma organized by the Council of Europe.
• November 28, 2014 – Jointly with the ROWNI network, I contributed to organize the conference, “A step forward“: a meeting of Roma and Sinti women on employment; housing; statelessness; health and education, in accordance with an intersectional approach and perspective.
• March 8, 2015: launch of the network „START-UP and … ROSA“ for self-entrepreneurship of women organized together with MOVI Lazio and Rowni – Roma Women Network Italy, under the patronage of the Municipality XII of Roma Capitale.
• Participation in the round table on social housing, mobility work, family reunification, under the project “Transnational Practices for local actions“ – project in 2103 FEI – Action 10.
• September 2016, worked as an expert for the Project „Innovative Paths of Social Inclusion and Equal Opportunities for Minors and Young People“.
• From 12 January 2016 to 12 July 2017: National coordinator for Italian Reference Partner in the EU project coordinated by Spes – Regional Volunteer Support Centre “Marry When You Are Ready“ co-financed by the European Union ‘JUST/2014/RDAP/AG/HARM/8009. Project partners – Roma women-led grassroots associations in Italy, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia and Austria – focusing on the scourge of early marriage through community work and institutional awareness raising. Romni organized 120 community meetings in the city of Rome. The project main outcome, “Practice and Policy Recommendations to Combat Early Marriage” was presented in the European Parliament and to national-level institutions in all project countries.
https://www.facebook.com/MarryWhenYouAreReady/
• 2017, organized in the local network, in agreement with Rome, the EU project “Common places: together against prejudices”.
• 18-19 September 2017, participation in Dialogue of the Council of Europe with Roma civil society, 4th meeting, Strasbourg “From Education to Employment”.
• On October 25, 2017, the Care Foundation organizes a Belgrade-based „Security of Roma Women in the Western Balkans“ conference in Belgrade. I reported on the security of Roma and Sinti women in Italy.
• 6-7 November 2017, participation in the 6th Roma women’s conference in Strasbourg.
• 24-26 November 2017, Sofia/Bulgaria: Expert, on the occasion of the international training workshop, “Roma Up: Bottom-up cross-community advocacy for Roma inclusion”.
•From 01/01/2017 to 31/06/2018, I worked as a Mediator-Expert for the project HASP – Honour Ambassadors against Shame Practices JUST/2014/RDAP/AG/HARM/7973.
• From 01/01/2018 to 31/12/2018, National coordinator for the Project ‘’Movement Roma and not Roma: Together We Can’’ financed by UNAR – National Office against Racism (Italy’s Equality Body).
• From 01/01/2018 to 31/12/2019, Coordinator & Trainer for the EU Project, “European Youth towards Antigypsyism (EYTA)” under the Erasmus+ program.
• From 01/01/2018 to 31/12/2018, Trainer for the EU project – Erasmus K1 2017-3-MK01-KA105-046760 “Colors of life”.
• From 01/12/2018 to 30/11/2020, National Coordinator, speaker, trainer and expert for the EU Project “Discrikamira” 809793 REC-AG-2017/REC-RDIS-DISC-AG-2017. The project aimed to illustrating negative stereotypes and hardly-engrained prejudice, besides educating and empowering Roma women to denounce hate crimes. To this end, this project provided legal support and developed a dedicated app.
https://www.facebook.com/DiscriKamira/
• From 01/01/2019 to 31/08/2019, Trainer in Erasmus+ K1 project 2018-3-IT03-KA105-014645 ‘’Stop Violence’’.
• From 01/01/2019 to 31/08/2019,  Coordinator, expert and trainer in the Erasmus+ K1 project 2018-3-IT03-KA105-014645 ‘’Together’’.
• From 01/01/2020 to 31/08/2020, Coordinator, expert and trainer in the Erasmus+ K1 project n. 2019-3-IT03-KA105-017070 ‘’The unspoken colors’ of discrimination’’.
• From 01/01/2020 to 30/09/2021 Coordinator, expert and trainer in the Erasmus+ K1 project 2020 No. 2020-2-IT03-KA105-018750 ‘’Memory is an antidote to anti-gypsyism’’.
• From 01/05/2020 to 31/04/2022, Coordinator, expert, researcher, speaker and trainer in the EU Project 881985-REC-RDIS-DISC-AG-2019 “IntersectVoices” in Finland, Romania and Italy with the aim of providing the missing linkages, by means of educational, legal and social support, between Roma women victims of intersecting discrimination and relevant public institutions.
• From 15/09/2020 to 15/02/2023, Coordinator, expert and trainer in the Erasmus+ K2 project 2020-1-HR01-KA204-077749, “Increasing the language competences of the Roma national minority – Better Tomorrow“. Grass-roots Roma associations in Italy, Slovenia and Serbia joined forces with a higher-education institution to develop a multi-lingual multi-media platform as learning and self-education tool for Roma minority to master the mainstream-language, being an essential starting point for education and employment purposes.
• From 31/12/2020 to 29/12/2022, Coordinator, expert and trainer in the Erasmus+ K2 project “Education for Labour Market Integration: Enabling Educators to Better Target Low-Qualified Adults (ELMI)“ 2020-1-De02-ka204-007664.
• From 01/03/2022 to 31/03/2022, Coordinator, expert and speaker in the Project „Media and racism, information that does not discriminate“ funded by UNAR – National Office against Racism (National Equality Body of Italy).

• From 10/01/2023 to10/08/2023, Coordinator, expert and trainer in the Project „Media and racism, information that does not discriminate” financed by Fondazione Valdese. In partnership with Press Association of Rome. The project engaged 125 professional journalists, 45 university students in media and communication studies and 100 university students in other disciplines.
• From 01/11/2022 to 31/10/2024, Coordinator, researcher and expert in the Erasmus+ K2 project 2022-1-SI01-KA210-ADU-000082774 on the strengthening of the NGOs working for the inclusion of Roma women in civil society. Coordinated by a Slovenian NGO.
•From 01/09/2022 to 31/08/2024, Coordinator, researcher and expert in the Erasmus+ K2 2022-1-ES02-KA220-YOU-000086528, “Schools of leadership and feminism for Romanì women in Europe”. Coordinated by the Spanish University Network of Roma Women.
• From 01/09/2022 to 31/08/2024, Coordinator, researcher and trainer in the Erasmus+ K2 project 2022-1-FI01-KA220-ADU-000086385, “Digital Inclusion for Roma Adults: Gaining Knowledge and Skills in eServices – DIRA”. The main objective of the project is the improvement of the socio-economic situation of Roma adults through IT education, as well as development of digital skills and competences to enable the adult population and socially excluded people to start using electronic services and devices as available in their surroundings – and thus, to be better included in their communities of origin and in society. The project is developing a learning platform with an appropriate content for education of adults in usage of the eServices and will organize training of trainers.
https://diraproject.org/ 1/01/2017 – 28/02/2022 ITALY CoE & EC as co-partners FACILITATORE Working in the:
empowerment of Roma and Traveller women to adequately address discrimination and other human rights violations committed against them, including early/forced marriage, trafficking, domestic violence, housing evictions, police abuse and hate crime;
helping them to facilitating access to court and court proceedings at national and international level, including when on probation or while in prison;
helping them to use legal advice, aid and/or representation through setting up legal clinics;