Stefano Mancini

Hailing from Trumbull, Connecticut, Stefano Mancini graduated with a degree in history from Lafayette College in 2022. While at Lafayette, Stefano led community engagement initiatives, coordinating hundreds of hours worth of service and educational experiences. He also immersed himself in food history through curating an exhibit on American food ephemera and writing his thesis on the relationship between culinary texts and gender during the seventeenth century in England. After graduation, Stefano served as an AmeriCorps VISTA in southwestern Connecticut, developing and implementing a client choice pantry based on his qualitative research to determine the needs of a diverse suburban and urban client base.

Field placement: Greater Boston Food Bank

Boston, Massachusetts

Policy placement: Food Research & Action Center

Washington, D.C.