Our staff
Italian native speakers team, expert teachers, passionate and modern scholars of the italian language.

Founder, Director, Head Teacher
Antonio Pisano
Antonio Pisano is a native Italian speaker from Sardegna.
Has a degree in Italian language and literature and a master's degree in liberal arts.
He's an experienced Italian teacher with ten years' experience in Italy, and has taught in America since 2008.
He's the founder of the "Parlo Italiano Language School" and has lived in the US since 2007 with his Italian wife and daughter.
He is passionate about his work and stays updated by traveling to Italy every year.
For many years, he was an adjunct Italian professor at Seton Hall University, NJ, and an Italian teacher and content manager for several schools and institutions (Casa Colombo in Jersey City, Berlitz School and ABC Language, NY, The Garage Language in NY, Middle school in Hoboken, NJ, etc.)
Currently, he's a teacher at River Dell High School in Oradell, NJ.
Has excellent credentials in computer science and is a web specialist.
In addition to English, he knows Spanish, Portuguese, and French, and is an energetic and great communicator.
Has professional experience in tourism and in organizing cultural events (concerts, museums, exhibitions), and in project management.

Cooking classes teacher
Valeria Tuveri
Valeria Tuveri is a native Italian speaker with a University degree in English language and literature.
She wrote her thesis on African-American literature at Columbia University.
Has extensive knowledge of the cultures and traditions of both Italy and the US.
Has taught "English as a Second Language" in Italy.
As a teenager, she spent a year as a foreign exchange student in Minnesota, and has also lived in New York. She now lives in New Jersey.
She's a connoisseur of cuisine and an excellent cook.
She's an expert on tourism, a field in which she has worked since 1998.
Has several hobbies, including cooking, music, literature, cinema, and TV.

Teacher
Virginia, Gin, Mazzoni
Gin (short for Virginia) Mazzoni is a native Italian speaker from Florence, Tuscany. She holds a BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures from the University of Florence, and she's finishing her MA in Cultural and Religious Intermediation at the same university.
She has a background in law, but languages have been one of her greatest passions for a while, and teaching Italian has been her job for almost the past decade. She moved to the US in 2019 to work as an Italian teaching assistant at Middlebury College in Vermont, and she now teaches privately, both one-on-one and in small groups, in person and remotely, at every level and age. She tailors lessons around the students' needs and makes sure the "viaggio" into Italian is fun, engaging, and truly useful for the learner. Apart from Italian and English, she speaks French (lived in Strasbourg, France, for a bit), Spanish, and Portuguese; can understand some basic German, Russian, Greek and Catalan; in the (slow, on going) process of learning way too many others: so, she's quite some first-hand expertise on what to do (or don't do) to efficiently learn a language. She currently lives in Vermont with her partner, who's an Italian teacher too, from Sardinia, and their blind 13-year-old cat, Nocciolina, who makes sure in-person students are supported enough by her constant purring. Apart from languages, Gin is passionate about quite a variety of things, among which: sociolinguistics, civil rights, animals, music, old black and white movies, acrobatic dance (which she also teaches), and art, in whatever form it presents. In her free time, she reads, cooks, paints, wanders around the woods, pets dogs, plays chess, and occasionally - and unwillingly - murders plants.
