Claude Bunny Massassa is a contemporary artist from Gabon. She created Bunny Studio in 2016, a start-up dedicated to photography production, which became DWABI Studio in 2021. As an artist, she has represented Gabon in many international exhibitions in Senegal, Uganda, France, the United States, and Italy. In her art, she denounces social stigmas around issues of identity and mental health, and explores themes of traditions and myths.
Executive Director Kimberly Aceves- Iñiguez has been passionately committed for over 20 years to social justice organizing and advocacy efforts that bring voice and power to youth, LGBTQ people, people of color, and working-class communities in the Bay Area. Before coming on as the Executive Director for RYSE, Kimberly served as the Executive Director for Youth Together, the founding organization of the RYSE Center.
Kanwarpal Dhaliwal is one of the co-founders of RYSE and currently acts as the Associate Director. She supports and guides the implementation and integration of healing-centered practices, grounded in racial justice and liberation, and also develops, promotes, and advocates for policies, investments, practices, and research that enliven healing, justice, and liberation. Kanwarpal believes that the purpose of her work and life is to contribute to movements, communities, and legacies of liberation that honor the ancestors who fought for her existence and survival, and to forge a world that is just and gentle for future generations.
Sagal Ali is the founder and executive director of SAF. After a few years in her career in heritage protection in the cultural sector, she decided to develop the initiative to directly support young creatives in Somalia by launching her own foundation. She hopes to bridge the social gaps and inequalities women face in Somalia, both in society and in the arts scene.
Co-founders Catherine Dunga and Marleen Palmaers created Kitambo to bridge the gap between the African diaspora in Colombia and the narratives from the continent. From Kinshasa and Antwerp respectively, they work to connect African artists from the continent and their peers from the Colombian diaspora.
Martha Kazungu is a curator, art Historian and Founder of Njabala Foundation, an organization that curates periodic exhibitions and organizes a public program of activities to create a safe space for female artists to thrive and blossom.
Alicia Hansen is a photographer and teacher from New York. She founded NYC SALT in 2008 and, beyond teaching valuable creative skills to her students, has developed a long-term support system to uplift them through school and into their early artistic careers.
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Adama Sanneh
Co-Founder, CEO
Adama is the Co-Founder and CEO of the Moleskine Foundation. Adama brings a unique hybrid background in management and cultural studies to his work designing and building innovative organisations able to generate social impact.
Adama graduated in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation from the University of Milan, obtained a Master in Public Management (MPM) from the Bocconi School of Management and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Geneva. After graduating, he worked as a management and strategy consultant for various public and not-for-profit organizations among which the United Nations, in education, social entrepreneurship, and innovation.
As the CEO of the Moleskine Foundation, he is committed to explore and leverage the intersection of business, education, culture, and social development to create new and meaningful public value.
Elena Korzhenevich
Co-founder and Programs Director
Elena was born in Moscow, Russia, but feels like a citizen of the world. She obtained her first degree in Linguistics and International Communication at the Moscow State Linguistic University. She continued with her Masters of Science in Journalism and Mass Communication with focus in Advertising at San Jose State University, California, USA. She spent 13 years working at such advertising agencies as Ogilvy&Mather, Goodby, Silverstein&Partners and Leo Burnett, where she was a Client Service Director on multiple key international accounts on a worldwide and European level.
In May 2014 she decided to radically change her career path and devote herself entirely to culture and knowledge first as Director of Communication of the Foundation and then move on to the current role of Director of Programs. In her free time she dances, attends film festivals and gets to know the world.
Rossella Zanelli
Art Collection and General Services Manager
Rossella earned her degree in Foreign Languages and Literature at the I.U.L.M. University in Milan. Soon after, she started working in a multinational pharmaceutical company. During this long and fruitful working experience, she challenged herself in three different vital sectors: Direction of Public and Government Affairs, OTC Marketing Department (Consumer Healthcare Division), Corporate Health Department.
Thanks to the experience gained in Internal and Corporate Communication, she was able to join Edelman Public Relation Worldwide as Senior Account Executive for Health Care products. After few years, she decided to leave for Paris with her family. At the end of three intense and enriching years, she returned home and “discovered” lettera27. In 2007, she started her collaboration with the Foundation. She is responsible for Moleskine Foundation‘s notebooks collection.
Daniele Carlini
Head of Marketing and Communication
Daniele has over twelve years of experience in Marketing, Communication, and Partnerships development. After spending three years at Moleskine Company, where he was responsible for the Licensing, B2B, and Partnership departments, he joined Moleskine Foundation at the end of 2019.
His career started at the Adidas Brand. First, he managed Licensing and B2B Channels in Italy for five years. Then at the Adidas HQ in Germany, he joined the Global B2B Department for a couple of years, leading sales and marketing strategy.
Daniele was born and raised in Perugia and graduated in Communication Science. In 2023, he completed an Exec. MSc in Social Business and Entrepreneurship at the London School of Economics. He is a proud dad of two girls, a talented but inconsistent runner, a football fanatic, and a food culture enthusiast.
Marina Mussapi
Strategy Implementation Manager
Marina joins the Moleskine Foundation after almost ten years’ experience in consultancy and project management for the cultural sector, developing strategic and business planning, market analysis, feasibility studies, economic and social impact assessment for museums, theatres, festivals and other cultural institutions. She was Adjunct Professor in Arts Economics at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice and at Accademia SantaGiulia in Brescia. From 2016 to 2022 she was project manager and program developer at BASE Milano, a creative hub born from one of the largest culture-led urban regeneration projects in Europe, being in charge of project development, institutional fundraising and educational programs.
She was born in Milan, where she graduated in Cultural Economics and Management from Bocconi University, and she holds a Master in Management of Creative Business Processes from Copenhagen Business School. She is passionate about photography, a music lover and plays cello in a rock band.
Executive Board
Maria Sebregondi
President
Adama Sanneh
Co-founder, CEO
Roberto Di Puma
Co-founder
Fabio Rosciglione
Co-founder
Christophe Archaimbault
Moleskine S.r.l. Chief Commercial Officer
Tania Gianesin
Co-founder
Manfredi Ricca
Global Chief Strategy Officer at Interbrand
Founder
Maria Sebregondi
Co-founder, President
Co-founder of the Moleskine Company, she conceived the notebook line in the 1990s. Director of Brand Equity and Communication until 2015, she was then a strategic advisor and Board Member of Moleskine. Currently she does not hold a position in the Company and is completely dedicated to non-profit activities.
Previously she worked independently as a consultant on strategic communications and product concept. Her professional experiences led to several teaching positions at various public and private universities.
Author of several socio-anthropological essays and articles on contemporary change, her writing also extend to various other areas: creative writing, poetry, non-fiction and literary translation.
She was a co-founder of the non-profit foundation lettera27 and a member of OPLEPO, Opificio di Letteratura Potenziale (Workshop of Potential Literature).
Marco Belpoliti
Co-founder
Marco Belpoliti is an essayist and writer, a professor of Literary Criticism and Literature and Visual Arts at the University of Bergamo and he collaborates with “L’Espresso” and “La Repubblica”. Marco is co-editor in chief of the “Riga” series (Marcos y Marcos) and the online magazine “doppiozero.com “.
With Guanda he has published: Il tramezzino del dinosauro, Il corpo del capo, Senza vergogna, Pasolini in salsa piccante, La canottiera di Bossi, Da quella prigione, L’età dell’estremismo, Primo Levi di fronte e di profilo, La strategia della farfalla. With Einaudi: L’occhio di Calvino e Settanta.
He has edited many works by Primo Levi and an edition of his complete Works (Einaudi 2016).
Roberto Di Puma
Co-founder, Board Member
Entrepreneur and manager, since 1975 he has been working in cultural organizations and cooperatives, developing editorial and product innovation products.
From 2004 to 2018 he covered various positions at Moleskine as part of Management (B2B, product design, publishing, licensing and new business).
In 2006 he Co- founded the non-profit foundation lettera27 that became Moleskine Foundation in 2017.
Fabio Rosciglione
Co-founder, Board Member
Co-founder of the Moleskine Company, he was in charge of sales and marketing since its foundation in the 1990’s. He defined Moleskine global distribution strategies and built its worldwide sales network. At the end of 2014 he became senior advisor, and since the end of 2015 he does not hold a position at the Company.
In the previous years of his professional career, he worked as CEO and as a strategic marketing consultant at a number of design companies. During his professional experience, he carried out training activities for selected private companies and universities.
Thanks to his passion for traveling and sailing he developed numerous projects based on solidarity principles, diffusion of knowledge and cultural exchange.
Today he is active in non-profit activities aiming at promoting dialogue and mutual exchange of ideas among people of the sea and their different cultural languages.
Tania Gianesin
Co-founder, Board Member
Co-founder and Executive Board Member of Moleskine Foundation.
She has always worked in the cultural field with the focus on education and access and sharing of knowledge. Main areas of expertise: Innovative/Unconventional Education, Art and Culture for social transformation, Strategic/Management consulting, Ethical Fashion/Design, Fashion Journalism, Social Entrepreneurship. In her life there are three key leitmotifs: music, neuroscience and synaesthetics.
