From Vico Equense to Brussels, one choice at a time.

The path so far

I graduated in Pharmacy from La Sapienza University in Rome, and continued my studies at the University of Geneva, where I trained in marketing, management and health policy. In the years that followed I worked in marketing for AstraZeneca in Milan, Menarini in Florence, and Berlin-Chemie in Berlin.

Between 2018 and 2019 I co-published two novels under the pen name Francesca Del Mar — “Song of mourning” and “Song of leaving”, written with Arianna Lanzuisi (Epokè). Writing and politics, for me, are the same gesture: trying to give shape to a world that would otherwise stay blurred.

I joined Volt Italia in 2019 during the European elections campaign, starting in the Florence group. A year later I was coordinating public relations for Volt Italia. In 2021, when I was elected co-president of Volt Europa, I paused my professional career to focus full-time on political activism. I was re-elected in 2023.

What I do today

As co-president, I work to make Volt Europa an increasingly mature federalist movement: one that wins European elections, shifts EU policy, and trains a new generation of people who do politics rather than only suffer it. I led the 2024 European Parliament campaign. Between 2021 and today, we’ve grown Volt’s European representation from one to five MEPs and built an organisation that now operates across more than a dozen countries.

When I’m not on the road, I’m doing political training, building networks between civil-society organisations, and bringing community organising into places it hasn’t reached yet. I run workshops, write, speak in public, and listen.

The values that guide me

I believe in a grown-up European democracy that is voted for as a real democracy — with transnational lists, voting at 16, and gender parity. I believe climate justice and social justice are the same struggle. I believe asylum policies must be grounded in treaties and human dignity, not in border outsourcing. I believe a serious European tax framework is the precondition for reducing inequality. And I believe politics is done with people, never for them.