Viola Carofalo


Viola Carofalo is an Italian politician, national spokesperson and leader of Power to the People, a coalition of parties, movements and associations which contested the 2018 Italian general election.

Study

Carofalo graduated in Philosophy and took her first PhD in 2008 in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy and a second Dottorato di Ricerca in 2012 in Philosophy and Politics.
She worked on the theme of bioethics and of the political myth in the thought of Ernst Cassirer and Roland Barthes, on the poetics of Bertolt Brecht and on the themes of recognition and interculturality.
In 2013, she published her first book on Frantz Fanon.
She is currently a PhD postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Human and Social Sciences at the Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" and collaborates with the professorships of Moral Philosophy and Intercultural Ethics.

Politics

Carofalo is an activist of Ex OPG "Je so' pazzo", a social centre located in the building of the former Sant'Eframo psychiatric hospital in rione Materdei.
Carofalo was chosen as national spokesperson on 17 December 2017 and as political leader from 6 January 2018 of Power to the People.