
Rachel Donadio
Executive Director
staff in New York

Hope Campbell Gustafson
Senior Program Associate

Michaela Olson
Coordinator of Programs and Operations

Juliette Neil
Special Projects Coordinator
Staff IN italy

Leandro Beacci
Groundskeeper

Patrizia Caini
Head of Housekeeping/ Sous Chef

Francesca Cacioppo
Housekeeping

Greta Caseti
Program Assistant

Romana Ciubini
Head Chef

Ilaria Locchi
Program Coordinator

Diego Mencaroni
Interim Director/Residency Director

Rosanna Minelli
Housekeeping

Debora Ventanni
Sous Chef
Civitella Ranieri celebrates and is committed to diversity and inclusion. We are an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer.
“It would take a far more brilliant wordsmith than me to articulate the Civitella experience fully. It starts, I think, with an extraordinary group of people who make these buildings and their community tick. And together with the Fellows, they create an atmosphere which is at once completely down to earth, and unbelievably rarefied. The latter, because such opportunities for complete solitude and intense focus, and in a turn, for such togetherness and fertile exchanges of ideas, should somehow be almost impossible to reconcile: and yet here they are, completely naturally and unselfconsciously.”
Board Directors
Civitella Ranieri Foundation has a Board that is comprised of friends and relatives of the donor, as well as professionals from philanthropy, academia, finance and law. The Board plays a vital role in maintaining the mission, health, and direction of Civitella Ranieri Foundation. It sets goals and policies, oversees the endowment, assesses the program and the Executive Director, as well as attends to board development.

Stephen Doyle
Secretary, DG 2015

Jennifer Dowley
Chair

Stephen Evans

Helen C. Evarts
Chair Emerita

Holly Evarts

Jonathan Galassi

Dwight E. Lee
Treasurer

Emily Rafferty

Christopher "Kit" White
Vice Chair, DG 2010, 2013

Deborah Willis
DG 2019

Du Yun
Fellow 2015
“There are no words to express how deeply appreciative I am for this time, this magic place, this gift of integrity. The sounds, the textures, the light, the flavors, the camaraderie filled my days with a new sense of hope that we can all support each other’s artistic vision to create a more harmonious world for all.”