Mariya Gancheva Marelli is a lawyer with more than 20 years of experience. She’s a member of the Sofia Bar Association and Milan Bar Association. Mariya is one of the lawyers who established the Female Lawyers Association in Sofia and is a member of that same organization in Milan. She’s one of the founders of the ‘UNSECO Leonardo da Vinci Sofia’ Club and also the Founder and Vice-Chairman of ‘Language and Cultural Centre – Bulgaria Here’ in Milan. Mariya describes her life as a series of missions and building bridges – legal, cultural, and purely human, between Bulgaria and Italy.