The Courtyard Revolution

At fourteen years old, Alicia Pederson felt stuck in suburban Michigan. Like most kids her age, she was completely dependent on a parent to see her friends or get anywhere outside the house. Even back then, she knew it didn’t have to be that way. After college, she moved to Florence, Italy as an au pair. She lived with a family in a building that had stood since the 1500s. They lived in a…