Giorgia, founder of Geoidentity and Fellow at the UN, originally from Sicily, Italy, has journeyed from designing for social impact in Italy to researching refugee rights in Santiago, Chile, and shifting to an interdisciplinary path with a Master’s from the...
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Giorgia, founder of Geoidentity and Fellow at the UN, originally from Sicily, Italy, has journeyed from designing for social impact in Italy to researching refugee rights in Santiago, Chile, and shifting to an interdisciplinary path with a Master’s from the Department of Environment and Earth Science at Tel Aviv University. Throughout her career, she has collaborated with organisations such as the United Nations Environment Programme, Dalberg, and the Nobel Peace Prize-nominated Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, funded by Palestinians, Israelis, and Jordanians for Middle East peacebuilding. Most recently, she was honored as a Young Water Professional at Stockholm World Water Week, a Semifinalist for the World Bank Youth Summit, and winner of the Inclusion Pitch Category at the ChangeNOW Coup de Coeur Awards. Founder of Geoidentity—a startup she founded that transforms education and identity into undeniable human rights by providing war and climate refugees with a blockchain-based universal academic passport. It was declared one of the top 5 startups for human rights by Springwise.