Our hosts will be Leonisa Ardizzone and her daughter, Rafaella Ardizzone-Jennings, a student at SUNY New Paltz majoring in Sociology who loves traveling in Italy. Their guest will be Alessia Mingrone, the Italian Coordinator and Lecturer at SUNY New Paltz. Her teaching, like her research, adopts an interdisciplinary approach to a variety of courses, including Italian language, literature, and cinema. She has a doctorate in international modern and contemporary literary and historical studies from the University of Salerno, Italy