Antonella Clerici, an Italian national, is a journalist and television personality. She covers international news for La Gaceta newspaper in Milan, Italy. In 2021, she came to the United States to serve as an assistant foreign press director for the State Department’s Bureau of International Information Services. She was also previously an assistant news editor for La Gaceta. She has a graduate degree in journalism from Sciences Institute in Milan, Italy.
According to the USC Newsroom, Antonella has dual citizenship due to her Italian birth and nationality. She was born in Vatican City and considered herself a citizen of that country since she was five years old. Her parents, however, had U.S. citizenship and so her parent’s nationality was not involved. She did not, however, know about her dual citizenship until she received her doctoral degree in history at the University of California, Los Angeles. When she began working at the Department of State as an assistant foreign press director, she was told that she held both American and Italian citizenship.
While she is employed with the State Department, she continues to hold her citizenship in Italy. Does this make her a dual-national? Not necessarily. But, she does consider herself an American citizen by the birth and upbringing of her two parents. In fact, according to the State Department’s manuals on dual citizenship, one should renounce their former nationality in order to acquire another.