For over a year, I’ve been participating in the National Museums and Cultural Institutions Committee formed by the Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations. This committee grew out of a plan activated by COPOMIAO and ISDA National President Basil M. Russo to unite Italian Americans across the United States through initiatives surrounding public policy, youth engagement, education, and, in my case, history and ancestry.

As Curator of the Western Reserve Historical Society of Italian American History, and Director of the Italian American Museum of Cleveland, I have found that regular collaboration with these peers has proved invaluable, because, in history, there’s always another story to tell, to learn, to expand on, to deepen.