Born in the Italian alps, Federica was raised by a grandmother who survived two world wars, and was therefore skilled at turning simple, ordinary ingredients into fabulous meals made from scratch. Federica’s childhood was spent cooking northern Italian food with her, making strudel with apples from the family’s orchards, and foraging for radicchio, wild asparagus, mushrooms, hazelnuts, chestnuts, and figs.  

Since moving to the United States in 1990, Federica has earned a degree in economics and accounting, run a series of successful small businesses, and held a variety of jobs in the finance sector. As a financial consultant, she taught small business owners how to navigate the challenges of running their own businesses: bookkeeping, business planning, cashflow budgeting, and decision making, while saving for retirement. She worked as a tax preparer for several years, focusing on the needs of small businesses and farms.   

Federica joined KTA in 2020 as a Farm Business Advisor providing financial management training to our farmer clients. In 2022 she moved to a support position as Finance Manager to liaise between KTA and our fiscal sponsor at the time. In 2024, when KTA became its own independent nonprofit entity, Federica took over as Director of Finance, leading the transition and managing KTA’s finance team.

When Federica is not working, you can find her hiking and mountain biking in the hills of West Marin, gardening, and cooking hearty meals.