The Marisa Antonini award has been established to honor passion for the Italian language, culture, or art. Danielle is planning to develop a partnership between her sorority and a local elementary school, with the aim of exposing the children to Italian authors and other aspects of Italian culture. Danielle writes about how her schooling experience has influenced her relationship with Italy:

When I came to Chapman, I chose to take Italian for my language requirement to both challenge myself academically and to learn more about my heritage. My great-grandmother on my mother's side was from Castiglione di Carovilli, and I grew up learning family recipes that had been passed down from generation to generation, such as my Nana's pizzelles, but that was the extent of my knowledge of my Italian heritage...

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