Andrea Canepari Author & Editor

H.E. Andrea Canepari, Ambassador of Italy to the Dominican Republic, was Consul General in Philadelphia and promoted public diplomacy initiatives to foster synergies among Italian-Americans, Italy, and the Delaware Valley. He served on several committees and boards, including the Presidential Advisory Board of Jefferson University. He received the 2016 Global Philadelphia Award from Temple University. He is the coeditor of The Italian Legacy in Washington, D.C.: Architecture, Design, Art and Culture, and editor of The Italian Legacy in the Dominican Republic: History, Architecture, Economics, and Society.

Judith Goode is Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Urban Studies at Temple University. She is the coeditor of The New Poverty Studies: The Ethnography of Power, Politics, and Impoverished People in the United States and coauthor of Reshaping Ethnic and Racial Relations in Philadelphia: Immigrants in a Divided City and The Anthropology of the City: An Introduction to Urban Anthropology. In 2000, she was awarded the Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical  Study of North America by the Society for the Anthropology of North America.