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Our Team
With a deep understanding of the Reggio Emilia Approach, our team designs innovative programmes, workshops, and learning environments that inspire curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking. Bringing both global insights and local context, our team empowers educators to cultivate spaces where exploration, collaboration, and meaningful learning flourish.

Jessica Deeprose
Pedagogy Consultant
With over a decade of experience in early childhood education, Jessica works closely with children aged 18 months to 6 years, alongside educators and leaders, to bring the principles of the Reggio Emilia Approach to life in everyday practice. Through a variety of projects with young children, she supports environments where curiosity, creativity, and collaboration naturally emerge. Jessica fosters reflective pedagogical practices by supporting observation, dialogue, and documentation, helping educators interpret children’s thinking and learning. Guided by a strong image of the child as capable and full of potential, she values participation and thoughtful organisation of space, materials, and relationships to create environments where children’s exploration, inquiry, and ideas can flourish.

Ainhoa Desola
Atelierista
Since 2012, Ainhoa has worked as an atelierista in a variety of educational contexts, bringing the Reggio Emilia Approach to life through the creative languages of children. Her work centres on the “hundred languages” supporting them to express ideas, theories, and emotions through a wide range of materials and processes. Ainhoa has extensive experience designing and facilitating atelier experiences that nurture children’s exploration, creativity, and self-expression. Through careful attention to environments, materials, and pedagogical documentation, she creates spaces where creativity becomes a language for thinking and meaning-making. Her work invites both children and educators into a shared process of research, reflection, and collaboration.
Professional Learning Opportunities
On September 29, 2011 the not-for-profit Foundation Reggio Children – Centro Loris Malaguzzi is officially born.
It has origin from the transformation of the International Association “Friends of Reggio Children”. In this way, added value and strength are given to the participation of people, citizens – from Reggio Emilia and from other cities and countries – and to the promotion and development of the participation of volunteers that has characterized the Association over the years.
Promoting founders
Reggio Emilia Municipality
NAREA (North American Reggio Emilia Alliance)
REI (Reggio Emilia Institutet – Sweden)
Red Solare Argentina
Effe 2005, Holding Feltrinelli
C.I.R. Cooperativa Italiana Di Ristorazione
Cooperative Sociale Coopselios
Pietro Manodori Foundation
Honorary Founder: Antonio Malaguzzi
Aims
- Addressing the potentials and the rights of people since birth.
- Sharing the values of the Reggio Emilia Approach around the world, also through the dialogue with other countries and experiences.
- Contributing to the development of the Loris Malaguzzi International Centre as a research, innovation and experimentation centre in the different fields of knowledge.
- Preserving and increasing the heritage of the quality and experience of the Preschools and Infant-toddler centres of Reggio Emilia, also implementing international exchanges.
Board of directors
President
Carla Rinaldi
Board members
Margie Cooper
Riccardo Ferretti
Harold Gothson
Italo Portoli
Francesca Sassi