Silvia is a journalist, essayist and teacher. Since 1995 she has been the editor of the publication for the international cooperation VpS-Volontari per lo Sviluppo, published by the italianeFocsiv NGO federation, and she also collaborates with various national newspapers. In 2010 she founded Ong 2.0, an education centre focusing on new web technologies. The not-for-profit organisation won the Sodalitas Social Innovation prize in 2014.

Since 2002 she has been running training courses about communication and international cooperation and new web tools at the ISPI and the Milano IULM, Scuola Sant’Anna in Pisa, the University of Turin and countless NGOs, local institutions and businesses.

Since March 2013 she has been head of the European project “Online communication for development” at the Piedmont NGO Consortium.

She has written many books, including, the e-book “Strumenti e strategie social per il non profit” (Tools and social strategies for not-for-profits) with Donata Columbro in 2013, the reality-novel “Chernobyl: una storia nascosta” (Chernobyl: a hidden story), a wide-reaching journalistic report that was included as a supplement in the daily newspapers Unità and Liberazione in 2006 (it was re-edited and appeared in 2008 and 2010 under the name “Bugie nucleari” [Nuclear Lies]). In 2008 she wrote “Dizionario del cittadino del Mondo” (Dictionary for World Citizen), published by EMI Bologna, and “Nuove Geografie” (New Geographies), also published by EMI. She previously wrote other texts and manuals.

In 2002 she was awarded the national prize “Giornalisti per il sociale” by Sodalitas-Vivereoggi and in 2004 her report on the effects of nuclear radiation in Belarus won her a place as a finalist for the Marco Lucchetta journalism award.