Marilena Umuhoza Delli

Marilena Umuhoza Delli is an Italian-Rwandan photographer, author, and filmmaker whose work has been featured worldwide by BBC, CNN, Corriere della Sera, Le Monde, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times, among others. She has written several books about her experience as a Black woman in Italy, hosts a national radio program on Radio Radicale dedicated to Afro-descendant excellence, and collaborates with Vanity Fair.

She co-founded Italy’s first Black-owned Anti-Racism Academy and regularly conducts workshops across Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom. In Los Angeles, she taught Italian language courses for foreigners at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura. She holds a Master’s degree in Languages for International Communication and studied filmmaking at UCLA (Los Angeles).

In 2020, she was named one of the 50 Women of the Year by D-Repubblica; in 2023, she received the Community Leader of Change recognition at the Black Carpet Awards organized by Vogue and AFW; and in 2025, she was a finalist for the Andersen Prize for her essay True Story of Black Italy. www.MarilenaDelli.com