She is head of communication at Pangea. She is a professional journalist and founder and president of Punto D, an association for the prevention and contrast of violence against women. She is also a trainer and lecturer on the issues of communication without stereotypes, the correct narration of violence, gender language, the dynamics of violence (the so-called spiral of violence) and the Istanbul Convention.

Role in the project: Communication

She has a ten-year experience in the management of international projects addressing social and educational issues, especially on the protection from gender-based violence. She has worked with different international organisations, such as the European Commission, especially on Erasmus+ funded projects, the World Bank, Ministries of Education and public institutions of various countries, and UN agencies (e.g. WFP, FAO, UNFPA). She is also an experienced trainer and has participated in a number of research projects.

Role in the project: Coordinator

Simona Lanzoni is Pangea’s Vice-President. Her main fields of expertise are gender equality, the promotion of women’s rights and the protection of women and children from violence. Since 2015, she is part of GREVIO (Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence of the Coucil of Europe) and since 2017, she has been appointed as its second Vice-President. For Pangea, she has worked for years in Afghanistan, India and Nepal, and she has supervised the implementation of the Foundation’s projects in DRC, South Africa and Colombia. Since 2008, she has been the leader in the creation and implementation of projects in Italy on women’s socio-economic empowerment, promotion of gender equality and women’s rights and prevention and contrast of GBVAW.

Role in the project: Supervisor and gender-based violence against women expert

Valentina Muià is project manager of the project "Little Guests" of Pangea Foundation.

Expert and trainer in Women’s studies, gender identity and equal opportunity, graduated in International and Diplomatic Sciences, she has deepened her studies in Life Sciences and self-determination within the Master in Gender Studies and Policies.

For years she has been involved in combating gender and child violence and defending their rights, she has been part of the coordination of the Udi (Women’s Union in Italy) for which she edited the Central Archive of Women. For years she has been involved in a cooperation project for women and children in Bosnia-Hercegovina and Kosovo. He curated for the Museo Storico della Liberazione in Rome the exhibition "Carte Resistenti". Social worker and humanistic mediator at the Juvenile Penitentiary Institute of Rome. She wrote for Noi Donne and Il Paese delle Donne, published the essay "Gli stupri di guerra nell'Oltrepò Pavese e nelle Valli Liguri: le "mongolate", in Stupri di guerra e violenza di genere, edited by S. La Rocca, 2015, Edizioni Ediesse and for the Women’s Country Conference Exhibition "From obtaining a right to exercise. Italian from 10 March to 2 June 1946 Testimonies".

Role in the project: project officer