"It's been more than four years since I got my Graduate Gemologist diploma, yet I will never get tired of thanking the staff at GIA for their commitment to professional development at the highest level.

Effective teaching methods and exceptional support from the instructors make GIA the starting point for those who, for work, for curiousity's sake or simply for the love of gems undertake to travel into this most infintesimal of worlds there to discover what lies behind the vivid color of a ruby, or to journey down the long and perilous road a diamond takes before it comes to rest on a woman's hand.

To give the gift of a gem is to give a piece of our planet's history and I feel a profound responsibility to explain, to both clients and friends in my office in Bari, the extraordinary value of these gifts of nature."