Alba Frascarelli currently serves as Orvieto Program Director and was born and raised in Italy, where she started her career in Archeology after getting her Master’s degree in Classics and Mediterranean Archeology at the University of Perugia. Also passionate with languages and travels, in the Spring 2000 she enthusiastically accepted a position as Visiting scholar at the Ruth Patrick Science Educational Center (University of South Carolina), developing the project “You be the archeologist” for kids K- 5/8.  Attending conferences in the US, she was lucky enough to meet Professor David Soren; this connection led to the creation of the Arizona in Orvieto Program in the Fall 2002. During the following 20+ years, Alba has welcomed more than 2200 students to Orvieto.