Serenella Sharry Silvi grew up in Rome, graduated with a degree in Political Science, worked at the United Nations and was one of the small group of people who gave life to the first centers of the Focolare Movement in North America during the sixties. She followed the developments of the movement while assuming different roles including that of editor of  Living City,  the Focolare magazine in North America, from 1967 to 2001. In 2002,  she returned to Italy where for 12 years she was responsible  for the section of the women focolarine worldwide at the  movement’s headquarters. She now resides in Rome.