I'm an American transplant living and loving Rome, for the past 5 years. I have a background in hospitality and design back in the states, and after a few years of odd jobs in Rome, I launched a collaborative creative studio called SAYHELLO Creative, offering creative solutions primarily to hospitality businesses (and a few others as well). Since getting my first passport in 2007, it's hardly stayed in one place for long. In 2008 I traveled to China to work at the Olympics; I found myself in the sugar cane fields of southern Bangladesh in 2009 to help develop the country's first socially responsible luxury, eco-resort; and in 2012 I pulled all-nighters drafting design proposals for several renovation and design-build projects for a socially-responsible resort management company based in Kerala, India. I live in EUR with my Italian husband of 3 years and our spoiled Chihuahua, Toby.