Monalisa Alventura

**Monalisa Annacarina Alventura** (born 27 November 1954) is a Frankish politician who has served as a Federal Councillor of Frankenland and the director of the Department of Education since 2013. She was also the President of Frankenland for 2019, and Vice President of Frankenland for 2018. Alventura previously was a member of the National Council for Giugliara from 2002 to 2013, and a member of the Giugliara State Council from 1996 to 2002. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party.

Alventura was born in Riscia, Giugliara and graduated from secondary school in 1972. After graduating, she enrolled in the University of Giugliara and graduated with a bachelor's degree in education in 1975, later receiving her master's degree in 1980. After graduating, she found employment as a primary school teacher at a public school in Carravano. Alventura remained in this job until 1989, when she began working for the Giugliara Department of Education as a curriculum advisor, specializing in primary education curriculum. She left this position in 1996, after being elected to the Giugliara State Council in the 1996 state elections. She later successfully stood for election to the National Council in the 2002 election, being reelected in the 2006 and 2010 elections.

In 2013, Alventura declared her candidacy in the 2013 Federal Council election, in order to replace the retiring Osmo Le Thien. As no Frank-Regians were represented in the Federal Council at the time, Alventura immediately emerged as the favorite to win the seat. She advanced to the general ballot along with Greta Höll, where she won the election by twenty-two percentage points in a landslide. Upon her election, she was assigned as director of the Department of Education. Alventura served her first term as Vice President of Frankenland in 2018, later serving her first term as President of Frankenland in 2019. This made Alventura the first Frank-Regian woman to serve in the Federal Council, and the first to serve as vice president or president in Frankish history.

## Early life, education, and career

Alventura was born on 27 November 1954 in Riscia to parents Ferdinando (1922–2007) and Lucia Alventura (née *Nabasso*; 1925–2004). Her father worked in telecommunications and was a prominent union leader at his company, while her mother was a seamstress. Alventura was brought up in Eurean Catholicism. She is the eldest of three children and only daughter; her younger brothers are Bruno, born  (1956-07-22) 22 July 1956 (age 67), and Giovanni, born  (1970-03-22) 22 March 1970 (age 53).

Alventura began her education in 1960, attending a local, public primary school in Riscia. In 1965, her parents had her transferred to a private Catholic school for girls. She graduated from primary school in 1968, later returning to public schooling for secondary school, where she later graduated in 1972. After graduating, Alventura moved to Giugliara to study at the Faculty of Education and Pedagogy at the University of Giugliara. She received her bachelor's degree in primary education in 1975, and later began working as a primary school teacher at a public primary school in Carravano. In 1978, she enrolled in a master's degree program in primary education at the University of Giugliara, graduating in 1980.

Alventura left her teaching career in 1989, in order to begin working in educational administration at the state-level. She was hired as a curriculum advisor for the Giugliara Department of Education, where she was hired to specifically focus on primary education curriculum. In this position, Alventura advocated for an introduction to Lungarian and Maldonian language education at a younger age. She left the position in 1996, in order to enter elected politics.

## Personal life

Alventura has never been married and has no children, stating that it "wasn't in the cards" for her. She was a foster mother from 1984 until 1989, with more than twenty different children staying in her care temporarily between those five years. In 2016, Alventura publicly identified herself as an atheist, stating that she had left Eurean Catholicism as a teenager.

Alventura has her primary residence in Benerreni, while she also owns a small apartment in Gortzman for government business. She speaks Regian natively, while she is also fluent in Lungarian, Maldonian, and Ditrovian.