Kate Carlisle is a Texan native who has lived in Italy for over 20 years, based mostly in Rome and now Veneto. While with Business Week magazine, she was the recipient of the Sidney Hillman award for the investigative cover story on human trafficking and slave labour in Europe, and also nominated for the Livingston Award for the article From Bad to Worse in a Gypsy Ghetto. A passionate advocate for human rights, she previously worked as a monitor for the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) and carried out the lion’s share of the research and writing of Campland: The Racial Segregation of Roma in Italy.