Born in Lugano in 1985, to an Italian mother and an American father. She has lived in Bologna since 2004, where she graduated with honors in Law, with two theses in Criminology and Constitutional Law. Already active in student associations and as a faculty councilor, in 2013 she worked in the production of the documentary Anija-La Nave awarded with the David di Donatello. In 2014 she was elected to the European Parliament, where she worked in the Development Commission on the issues of International Cooperation and the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (commitment for which she received the 2017 Mep Award), in the Commission of Inquiry on the Panama Papers against paradises in the Commission for Gender Equality and in the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Commission, where she deals with migration policies and is a rapporteur for the Socialist and Democratic Group on the reform of the Dublin Regulation. She ends her mandate in 2019. In the regional elections of January 2020 she leads the Emilia-Romagna Courageous list and is elected in the regional legislative assembly. You are currently Vice President and Councilor for the fight against inequalities and ecological transition: Pact for the climate, welfare, housing policies, youth policies, international development cooperation, international relations, relations with the EU of the Emilia-Romagna Region Council.