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Teachers
	Sara Bianchi Chamberlin holds an equivalent of a M.A. in Languages from Milan State University. She grew up in Monza, a town just outside Milan and she moved to the U.S. from Italy in 2002. Her thesis was on American Literature and was entitled “The Art of Nature in Ralph Waldo Emerson”.
She has a passion for languages since she was a “bambina” and she speaks English and French fluently as well as German. She also made the study of Italian her priority during her university years and she studied Italian grammar and literature for two years to be able to teach it abroad. After working many years for a major Italian network in the Sports Department as the International Relations Coordinator and collaborating as a freelance journalist for Italian local newspapers, she moved to the Bay Area where she started her own school of Italian, teaching for the Continuing Education program of the Tamalpais High School District, tutoring for the College of Marin and teaching private classes for all ages. Sara lives in Marin with her husband and two children aged 4 and 1.
	Sara Arrigoni Almaguer is a Native Italian from Gallarate (40 minutes North of Milan). She is a dedicated teacher and has passion for teaching children. Specifically, Sara’s goal is to teach her students Italian in a natural way that is appealing to her students. She uses many different tools including art, music, and anything else that might make learning interesting. She hopes that by exposing her students’ minds to the Italian language, they may be more successful through their K-12 learning “career”.
Sara credits her success to her dedication to teaching. She is currently working on a degree in early childhood education and regularly attends seminars focused on the subject. Sara has been teaching since 2002, when she started as one of the original teachers at La Piccola Scuola Italiana, LPSI, an Italian full-immersion Reggio Emilia preschool in SF. In 2005 she was a co-founder of Girotondo School in Mill Valley. Her hobbies and creative spirit have helped her become a successful and well-liked teacher. She loves hiking, cooking and photography and is a vast resource of creativity and artistic expression. Sara is happily married and has two children aged 5 and 2.
Angela Succi holds a degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Rome "La Sapienza". She grew up in Rome and from elementary to High school she received bilingual education in a school called Santa Agnese which is considered one of the best bilingual Italian/ Spanish schools in Rome. Angela works experience with children started in 1995 in a school called San Matteo in Rome where she worked part-time as a substitute language teacher from K-5 grade. In 1998 she worked as a Psychologist in an orphanage at Roca di Papa a small city located 45 minutes from Rome where she was responsible for assessing the condition and developing a therapy plan for Down syndrome’s children. She has also worked as a certified interpreter and translator (Italian- Spanish) for the Italian Senate and some Italian Government agencies. Currently, she volunteers in San Francisco at the center "Support for Families" where she counsel parents of ADHD children and at the Center of "La Raza" where she gives psychological support to batter women and their children. Angela loves to be around children, she sees them as individuals with incredible potential and capable of expressing their selves in unimaginable ways. From raising a trilingual child she has learned that children can successfully achieve as many languages you teach them. The secret is being consistent, make the learning fun, allows the child to get some control of his/her learning and never force the child to speak a language if he/she doesn’t want to. She lives in San Francisco with her husband Giovanni an architect and her seven years old son Giancarlo.

TRANSLATION SERVICE
Sara Bianchi Chamberlin is also listed among the Bay Area translators in the Italian Consulate website. If you need any legal or other document translated, please do not hesitate to contact her. She also works as a voice-over talent and language specialist/consultant for different companies recording multilingual material.