With Heart | March
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About the speaker
Dr. Gaia B Amman was born and raised in Italy. She moved to the United States in her twenties to pursue her PhD in molecular biology. She's currently a Professor of Biology at D'Youville College in Buffalo, New York, where she was voted "the professor of the month" by her students. Her research and commentaries have been published in prestigious peer-reviewed international journals including Nature.
A bookworm from birth, she wrote throughout her childhood and won two short story competitions in Italy in her teens. Gaia is an avid traveler and her fiction is often inspired by her life adventures. She is mostly passionate about people, and the struggles they face to embrace life. Her highest hope is to reach and help as many as she can through her writing as well as her teaching. She authored the Italian Saga, an irreverent series of humorous and insightful young adult novels taking place against the gorgeous backdrop of Northern Italy. The books, light-hearted and funny at first sight, deal with issues like sexuality, divorce, friendship, abuse, first love and self discovery.
Among her favorite authors are J.K. Rowling, Jandy Nelson, Neil Gaiman, Chuck Palahniuk, Kurt Vonnegut, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Antoine de Saint Exupèry.
📷 Beth Insalaco
Additional details
‘WITH HEART’ is a limited, virtual series coming together live and in-experiment with past speakers, the BiC all-volunteer team, and you: Buffalo’s creative community. Together we’ll explore what’s driving creative capital investment in the now and here, with levity and a dutiful dose of sprinkles.
INTERPRETERS AVAILABLE
A sign interpreter is available, thanks to Deaf Access Services. To make arrangements, email us by the Wednesday before the event.
Photo from Beth Insalaco on CMbuf Flickr.
