John Giovanelli is the Chairperson of the World Languages Department at West Warwick High School in Rhode Island where he has been teaching Italian and Spanish for over twenty years. He is an Executive Board member of the Rhode Island Teachers of Italian and a member of the American Association of Teachers of Italian and the Rhode Island Foreign Language Association. John is also the co-director of the AATI National Italian High School Contest Examination and the co-author of Chiarissimo Uno and Due.