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Buon Anno Nuovo from NOIAW!
Care Amiche e Cari Amici,
Can you believe that 2023 is almost in the books? This time of the year we tend to look back to see what we have achieved so far, and forward with our heart and mind full of New Year's resolutions. What are yours? Ours is to keep furthering our mission of creating a thriving community that embraces our Italian culture, and empowering women of Italian descent.
NOIAW is approaching 2024 with two new members elected to the National Board, Cristina Carabetta and Rossella Rago. Read below about them and find out how amazing they are! Speaking of NOIAW Board members: did you know that Adriana Trigiani was honored "Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia" by the Italian President Sergio Mattarella? And that NOIAW Founder & Chair Emerita, Aileen Riotto Sirey, was bestowed with a Lifetime Achievement Award by Italian Charities of America?
Also, do not miss the NOIAW Three Wise Women celebrations for 2024: each Region will acknowledge three outstanding community female leaders. January is going to be very busy around here...
Buona lettura e Auguri!
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New NOIAW Members on Board | Cristina Carabetta, a New York lawyer, entrepreneur, and a past NOIAW Honoree, and Rossella Rago, a cookbook author, food celebrity, entrepreneur and past NOIAW Greater New York Wise Woman, were elected to the National Board. Find out more about these two young and energetic Italian American women. | |
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Cristina Carabetta, Esq. is the Founder and Principal Attorney at The Legal Consult Group, owner of the luxury brand Betta Bag, and Chairperson of the National Italian American Bar Association.
Cristina founded The Legal Consult Group to assist startups and small businesses navigate the business and legal arena. While practicing in the corporate world, Cristina saw the daily inequalities women face. Keep reading about Cristina here
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Rossella Rago is an Italian American cookbook author, host and entrepreneur. She was born and raised in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, to parents who emigrated from Mola di Bari, a small fishing village in Puglia, and grew up deeply rooted in her Italian and American heritage. Rossella has authored 3 cookbooks.
Find out more on Rossella here
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More NOIAW Members in the News | |
Hail to Cavaliere Adriana! | |
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Adriana Trigiani, award-winning author, filmmaker and National Board member, was appointed "Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia" (the Order of the Star of Italy) by President Sergio Mattarella. She formally received the honor on May 17th, 2023 but the knighting ceremony was held on November 30th, 2023 at the Italian Consulate in New York.
Above, Adriana holding the award at the end of the ceremony. Below, she and General Consul Hon. Fabrizio Di Michele during the introductions.
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A Lifetime Achievement Award
for NOIAW Founder and Chair Emerita
Aileen Riotto Sirey
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Last October Italian Charities of America held their traditional Gala honoring five outstanding Italian Americans. NOIAW Founder & Chair Emerita, Aileen Riotto Sirey, was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award. In the picture above, the five honorees: left to right, Cav. Anthony Julian Tamburri, PhD, Nino Provenzano, Alessandra Belloni, Comm. Aileen Riotto Sirey, PhD and Comm. Angelo Vivolo. | |
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Italian Women Scientists Go Places
There are four Italians among the world's best women scientists according to the latest annual ranking by research.com, which each year lists the world's excellence chart based on the number of publications and citations.
Oncological epidemiology expert Silvia Franceschi ranked as 20th; national nuclear physics institute research chief Speranza Falciano is 62nd; epidemiologist and Bologna University lecturer Eva Negri 70th; and Pavia University cardiology lecturer Silvia Priori 85th.
Resarch.com's table of the top 1,000 female scientists included another 22 Italians in fields ranging from medicine to astrophysics.
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NOIAW Epiphany Is Just Around the Corner! | |
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As per tradition, each of the four NOIAW Regions honors Three Wise Women in January, recognizing Italian American women who have made positive contributions within the greater community and especially in the area of women’s empowerment. Join NOIAW in celebrating these outstanding women, while helping to support our scholarships and cultural and educational programs.
Choose your Epiphany and find out how to participate!
You can either reserve your ticket or be a sponsor. Grazie!
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Greater
Washington DC
Thursday, January 11 at 6 pm
The 2024 NOIAW Greater Washington DC Region Wise Women are Marilyn Jerome, MD, Leah Woodward, CFA, and Julia M. Bellotti, PMP.
Tickets and sponsorships
available here
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Connecticut
Sunday, January 14
at 11 am
The 2024 Connecticut Region Wise Women are Dorothy Bratchell, Chief Advisor Officer of Women’s Business Development Council, Melanie J. Cecarelli, Vice President and Partner of Harvest Development Group, LLC, and C. Marina Marchese - DeBenedetto, member of Italian Register of Experts in the Sensory Analysis of Honey American Honey Tasting Society.
Tickets and sponsorships available here
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Greater New York
Tuesday, January 16
at 6 pm
The 2024 Greater New York Region honorees are Maryalice Mazzara, Ed. D, Angela Christiano, Geneticist, Ph.D, and Lisa Veglia, LCSW, MPA, SAS.
Tickets and sponsorships available here
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Rhode Island
Saturday, January 20,
at 11 am
The 2024 RI Wise Women are Cathy Corelli Chianese, President & Creative Director of CC Media Partners Advertising & Design Agency; Daniela Ciccone, Co-Founder & Co-Director of Passport to Languages; Juliet Grames, internationally acclaimed author.
Tickets and sponsorships
available here
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The Long Island Network Celebrated the Holidays
The NOIAW Greater New York - Long Island Network celebrated the Holidays with a sumptuous luncheon at the Strathmore Vanderbilt Country Club. The event, as usual, was a great success. In the photo below: left to right, Betty Santangelo, National Board, Chair of the Programs Committee, with Francesca Runge and Linda James, organizers of the event. In the picture on the right: Judge Suzanne Adams and her mother Joann.
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New Promotion!
Doing good can taste good too. Join NOIAW in this new promotion, and add a pinch of Puglia on your Holidays' table - at the same time donating to NOIAW and supporting a worthy project that helps inmates and former inmates rebuild their lives.
NOIAW teams with "A Mano Libera - Senza Sbarre" (Free Hands - Without Bars), a project alternative to detention. Participants work on a 25-acre farm in Andria, Puglia, where they learn artisanal skills to produce taralli, a popular Italian snack food.
The "A Mano Libera" Taralli comes in two versions: the box of 4 packages of 8.8 ounce each at $50, and the case of 12 packages at $100. 20% of each purchase goes to NOIAW, all you have to do is insert the code NOIAW when prompted. Shipping is free in the United States.
Click here to purchase
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Welcome New NOIAW Members
Each month, we ask new members to submit a profile that we can share
with our membership. Many times, members opt out of this opportunity.
If you recently joined NOIAW, please consider sharing your bio
so more of us can welcome you in NOTIZIE!
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Anne D'Innocenzio
GNY Region/metro NY Network
National Business Writer
Anne D’Innocenzio is a national business writer for The Associated Press and is based in Manhattan. Her focus is the retail industry. When not reporting, Anne enjoys playing piano and going to museums and theaters in Manhattan. She has also performed on and off at the New Talent Show at Carolines on Broadway before the pandemic, riffing about her overprotective Italian Catholic mother and her family. Her standup comedy morphed into her one hour solo show called “The Red Light Zones,” which she performed in October 2022 at the Theaterlab, a theater in Manhattan dedicated to innovative work.
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Dominique Cieri
Greater NY/New Jersey Network
Novelist at Penguin Random House
DOMINIQUE CIERI is an award-winning playwright, master teaching artist, Dramatists Guild member, and a two-time recipient of the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation/ New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Playwriting Fellowship.
She is a graduate of Rose Bruford College in Kent, England, recipient of the State University of New York Chancellor’s Medal of
Excellence for Scholarship and Creative Activities, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing at
Goddard College, Vermont. Ms. Cieri’s plays have been produced in New Jersey, New York,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Baltimore, and Pennsylvania. Her Essays on Arts and Education have
been published in the New York Times, and Teaching Artist Journal. Dominique taught the
adaptation of nonfiction based on the Holocaust for stage and video adapting 26 plays based on Holocaust survivor stories. The scope of Dominique’s work has touched on a wide variety of populations, including girls and boys at risk in juvenile justice. An inaugural member of the
Women’s Playwrights Circle @ Speranza, 2021-22.
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A Blast from the Past!
By Aileen Riotto Sirey
NOIAW Founder, Chair Emerita
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In 2002 The National Organization of Italian American Women published its first and only
cookbook. The cover (right) was designed by Barbara Riotto Garodnick.
Some of the contributers to the book were
Baronessa Zerilli Marimo’s Veal Shank Milanese, five recipes from Matilda Cuomo from Escarole to NY State Apple Tart,
Aileen Riotto Sireys’ Caponatina and her Mom’s Manicotta, Gerry Ferraro’s Easter Pie which she said when eaten "she could hear her arteries harden", Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro’s Just Desserts, and recipes from Lidia Bastianich, Mary Ann Esposito, Hon. Tina Anselmi to name a fee.
There were recipes but as the title implies, there were little personal stories that went with Recipes and Remembrances.
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Left to right: Judge Angela Mazzarelli, Co-Editor Roseann Martorella, Founder Aileen Riotto Sirey, Co-Editor Barbara Riotto Garodnick, and Donna DeMatteo
(We are considering the possibility of a new edition.
We will keep you posted as we look into the costs and sponsors.
If you are interested in helping explore this project,
please let us know at arsirey@gmail.com)
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Thank you so much for being part of NOIAW!
We are grateful that you recognize the impact your heritage has had on your life and the value in sharing this legacy with others.
Your continued support is critical and we ask you to please consider making a donation during this season of giving.
OPPORTUNITIES TO SUPPORT NOIAW
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LEGACY IN-HONOR/IN-MEMORY GIFT GIVING is a one-of-a-kind convenient gift-giving program to celebrate special people in your life. It provides acknowledgement and lasting recognition to your gift recipient that is tax-deductible. Designate a legacy gift in honor or in memory of someone you love.
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PROGRAM CONTRIBUTIONS We invite you to contribute a year-end program support gift here so that we can maintain our high quality programming and keep our regional events affordable for all. We are in the process of re-establishing our Mentorship Program and will strive to match up young professionals with senior professionals in similar fields in 2024.
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SCHOLARSHIP SUPPORT We invite you to consider supporting NOIAW’s Scholarship Program so that we can continue to provide scholarships to high-achieving Italian American undergraduate and graduate students who demonstrate financial need to continue their education. NOIAW awards between five and seven scholarships per year.
NOIAW’S Annual Spring Luncheon will be on Saturday, April 13, 2024 at the St Regis NYC. More details to come soon.
Join us for this wonderful celebration!
Together with our National Board of Directors, we wish you
and your family a very Happy and Healthy New Year.
Diana Femia, Chair, National Board
Pat Tinto, NOIAW President
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