
Amelia Massetti
Founder and President
Amelia moved to Berlin in 1988, where her daughter, Lia Nadine, a person with Down Syndrome, was born. Before moving to Berlin, she worked in Rome in the children’s theatre ‘Il gruppo del Sole’ collaborating in summer centres and school camps and realising similar projects with other organisations. In the 1980s, she became a member of the board of Arci Donna Nazionale, promoting various cultural and political projects for women throughout the country. With this association she founded the first Baby Sitter Centre, putting families in contact with childcare workers, aimed at the recognition and qualification of this professional figure.
Amelia Massetti conceived and founded Artemisia in 2016, of which she is the President. She is in charge of the coordination, development and promotion of the Project, public relations, manages the website and the Meta and Instagram page.

Lia Nadine Massetti
Artemisia's Inspiration
Lia Nadine was born in Berlin in 1989. Until the age of 14, she attended kindergartens and schools that promoted school inclusion. Afterwards she attended the special school Güstav Müller Schule where she participated with the Samba Music Group in various artistic performances all over Berlin. He was part of the African music group Mosaik, playing the Djembe, and the Popular music group. In 2015, he participated in Blinde & lame’s video clip “Come am little closer” and in the performance of various differently abled artists in the Münchner-Volkstheater “Geht’s noch?! Der große Krampf’ with her own choreography based on traditional African music.
Since 2011 he has been working permanently as a performing artist in the Theater Thikwa, founded in Berlin in 1991 for people with and without disabilities. With Thikwa, she collaborates in various theatre productions and works as a performing artist In 2023 she realised her first directing and choreography with the Theater an der Parkaue.

Alice Marchetto
Vicepresident and Project Manager
In 2015 Alice moved to Berlin to look for new job opportunities in the disability field. Se has a master degree in Development and Education Psychology. She has done different internships in the mental health field as a Neuropsycologist in the hospital and in a day center for adults with disabilities. In Italy she has worked together with the University Center for Disabilities and Inclusion with different projects to promote a new inclusive culture based on Hope Optimism and Temporal Perspective to support a good and satisfying quality of life in disabled people .
In Artemisia, Alice takes care of the Future Projects section and the management of the Artemisia’s operators.

Claudia Alvino
Treasurer and secretary
Nata a Napoli il 1. Novembre 1985 Claudia si è laureata all’Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, in architettura nel 2010. Dopo l’Erasmus a Berlino nel 2007 si trasferisce definitivamente nel 2010. Nella sua carriera professionale ha lavorato in vari Studi di architettura a Berlino. Attualmente vive tra Berlino e Rothenklempenow, oltre a seguire la nostra associazione, lavora come architetto per il BioBoden Genossenschaft eG.
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Valeria Reghenzani
Volunteer
Born in the province of Varese in 1974. She has lived in Berlin since 2013.
From 1997 to 2000 she attended the training course in Psychomotricity for adolescents, adults, and the elderly at the AISPSIM in Milan directed by Dr.Morosini.
Between 2006 and 2007 she converted the qualification into a qualifying degree in developmental neuropsychomotor skills at the State University of Milan.
Both during her training years and without, she worked for about 18 years in the socio-educational field with children and adults with and without disabilities between Milan and Varese.
Since 2017 she has been working as an educator at an Italian-German kindergarten
in Berlin.

Dora Venturi
Volunteer
Born in Venice on 29 March 1956, she completed her classical secondary education at the “Pietro Orseolo II” Classical High School on the Lido of Venice and graduated in Law from the University of Ferrara.
She is a qualified lawyer registered with the Venice Bar Association, specializing in family law and juvenile law. She has served as a court-appointed guardian ad litem for minors at the Venice Juvenile Court, as well as guardian and support administrator at the Guardianship Court of the Venice Ordinary Tribunal.
Throughout her career, she practiced as a self-employed lawyer before the courts of Venice, Padua, Ferrara, and Bologna. She also collaborated with the Centro Donna of the Municipality of Venice, founded in the 1980s in Mestre as an anti-violence center for women.
She is a member of AIAF – the Italian Association of Family and Juvenile Lawyers, and has organized several national conferences in the Veneto region focusing on family law.
Since retiring in 2015, she has been living in Berlin.