Marilena Umuhoza Delli

Author, photographer, and Italian-Rwandan director, whose work has been published by BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times. She has written four books about her experience as an Afro-descendant woman in Italy, hosts a program on Radio Radicale, and writes for Vanity Fair. She co-founded Italy’s first black-owned Anti-Racism Academy and regularly holds workshops in Italy, Brazil, the USA, and the UK. She taught Italian at the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles and holds a Master’s degree in Languages for International Communication, along with film studies at UCLA. In 2020, she was named one of the 50 women of the year by D-Repubblica, and in 2023, she was awarded Community Leader of Change at the Black Carpet Awards organized by Vogue and AFW.