Sylvia De Fanti

A definition of "international" talent, the fluently multi-lingual polyglot Sylvia De Fanti was born into life as a 'citizen of the World'. Her father (an Italian engineer) was working in Montreal at the time of Sylvia's birth. At 6 months old, his work took the family to Panama, where they lived until Sylvia was 5, when they moved to was Hong Kong. She attended a British school until the age of 12, when her Italian-born parents decided to return to Italy. Her family moved to Rome, where Sylvia has called "home", ever since. Sylvia studied at Universita La Sapienza, then at La Sorbonne, where she enrolled in a Human Sciences curriculum (including courses in Cinema, Postmodernism and Women & Gender Studies). In Paris she stoked her feminism and human rights activism, perfected her French, honed her acting skills and went on stage for the first time. She returned to Rome, Sylvia graduating Cum Laude with Masters in Communication and Cultural Anthropology. She wrote her thesis on Chaos