Liz Shemaria
Liz Shemaria is Italy Magazine's director of partnerships and also writes features on art, design and culinary traditions. An award-winning journalist, she has contributed to more than a dozen publications and organizations including Human Rights Watch, BBC Travel, AFAR, Roads & Kingdoms, and Fodor’s (print and online Italy guides). A third-generation Northern Californian, she has traveled to more than 30 countries, including solo trekking in Himalaya, a reporting trip to interview artists in military-ruled Burma, and studying in Florence, which planted her roots in Italy. During late nights in the newsroom at the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned an undergraduate degree in art history and a master’s degree in journalism, she discovered that spontaneous dance parties are essential to her creative process. Based in Italy since 2017, a cappuccino and a square of onion focaccia is her favorite way to start the day.