Valentina Vivona

Researcher for Italy
Valentina Vivona is a multimedia journalist and communications expert with 10 years’ worth of experience. She has a background in Environmental Economics and Peace Studies and focuses on environmental and social issues, with bylines in national and international outlets such as Altreconomia and Are We Europe. In 2014, Vivona won the Roberto Morrione award for an investigative video on illicit waste disposal in Rome for RaiNews. She has lived and worked in Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Spain and France. Vivona also carried out transnational European projects on media-related issues and data journalism for the non-profit organisation Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa from 2017 to 2022.