Project Manager and Consultant – Marketing Management, Internationalization, and Political Experience

Co-founder of Equi Project, a consulting firm specialized in the drafting, management, and evaluation of national and international projects focused on human rights, women’s rights, disability, sustainability, the environment, tourism, culture, and international relations, Cristina is Creativa’s partner and advisor in international projects.

She spent her childhood and adolescence in non-European countries, including Zambia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Sudan, following her father who worked for international organizations. It is in the experiences of those years that lie the roots of her attention and sensitivity to the themes of diversity, peace, and solidarity, which have been fundamental to her professional and political path.

She has held various political positions, including in the Bureau of the Piedmont Region, and has been elected three times as a councillor, most recently as Councillor for Contracts, Procurement, Treasury, Decentralization, City Times and Schedules, and Equal Opportunities Policies of the City of Turin. She was also the representative of the Piedmont Regional Council at the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities in Strasbourg.

From a professional standpoint, she has experience in marketing management, internationalization, and the organization of events and conferences both in Italy and abroad. She has often worked on initiatives related to equal opportunities, aware that promoting a culture of rights and valuing differences is essential to improving quality of life, especially for women.

In 1995, she had her first administrative experience, serving as Councillor for Commerce and Tourism in a municipality in the province of Turin.

Her personality and institutional activism are the result of dialogue, growth, and exchange with others. In particular, she owes much to four women: her mother Violetta and her three daughters—Alessandra, 23; Carola, 21; and Giorgia, 17—who, together with her husband Carmelo, are not only essential in supporting her political activity but are above all her point of balance and reference through which everything is evaluated. Thanks to their support, she was able to stand for the regional elections on April 3–4, 2005, and was elected Regional Councillor of Piedmont on the Union’s regional list for Mercedes Bresso.

On May 16, 2005, she was appointed Director of the Office of the Secretary of the Regional Council Presidency, with responsibility for the Female Perspective and the Perspective of Women Elected in Piedmont, and was reconfirmed at mid-term in the session of November 28, 2007. Since 2005, she has also served as the national contact for the Association of Municipalities, Provinces, and Regions for Tibet.

In July 2005, she was appointed a member of the Italian delegation to the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, particularly as a member of the Commission on Sustainable Development, the Institutional Commission, and the Working Group on Regions with Legislative Powers. The Congress is a political and cultural movement in which local governments at all levels—from municipalities to intermediate bodies to regions—are active, with the primary goal of promoting and coordinating the efforts of local and regional authorities in building European unity in a federal form.

Institutional and Political Experience

  • Since 2012: President of the International Observatory of Violence Victims (I.O.V.V.)
  • Since 2012: President of CCPCVD – National and Provincial Coordination Against Violence to Women
  • Since June 2011: Deputy Mayor with responsibility for Equal Opportunities, City Times and Schedules, Decentralization, Treasury, Procurement, and Contracts of the City of Turin
  • President of the Procurement Observatory of the City of Turin
  • From 2010 to 2011: Councillor for the Environment and Quality of Life of the City of Venaria Reale, with responsibility for urban planning, environment and green spaces, community relations, animal protection, alternative energy sources, equal opportunities, culture of difference, and family
  • From 2005 to 2010: Director of the Office of the Secretary of the Piedmont Regional Council, with responsibility for the Female Perspective and the Perspective of Women Elected
  • Since 2005: National Coordinator of the Association of Municipalities, Provinces, and Regions for Tibet
  • Since 2005: Regional and national member of AICCRE (Italian Association of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions)
  • From 2005 to 2010: Member of the Italian delegation to the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe (Strasbourg, France)
  • Member of the Commission on Sustainable Development, the Institutional Commission, and the Working Group on Regions with Legislative Powers based in Paris
  • From 1995 to 2000: Councillor for Productive Activities of the Municipality of San Benigno Canavese (Turin)
  • In January 2024: Mariacristina Spinosa and Simona Massera founded Equiproject, a women-led association offering services in the design, management, and evaluation of projects ranging from cultural initiatives to human rights, sustainability, and responsible tourism