Sara Stefanini is half Italian and half Australian and grew up mostly living between the U.S. and Italy, with a short stint in Russia. She earned a Master’s degree at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2006 and worked as a freelance reporter for several New York City publications, including amNew York and CityLimits.org. She then became a senior reporter at Law360.com, a daily online newswire for lawyers, and covered issues such as energy & environmental law, employment law, mergers & acquisitions and intellectual property law. She focused particularly on international law, covering regulation and policy in the European Union, the U.K., India, Australia and other countries.