Hope Campbell Gustafson, twice an intern at Civitella, will join the New York staff as a Special Projects Coordinator to organize for Civitella’s 25th anniversary events and celebrations. She will develop contact with our worldwide alumni, will organize worldwide events focusing on Civitella and New York, and will evaluate the activities once they are complete.

 

A Minneapolis native, she graduated from Wesleyan University in 2012, after which she lived in Italy for four years. Hope is currently finishing up her MFA in the Literary Translation Workshop at the University of Iowa, her thesis a translation of Ubah Cristina Ali Farah’s Il comandante del fiume. Â