About Love for Giovanni
Love for Giovanni was born from the life and legacy of my son, Giovanni Cipriano.
Giovanni was 14 years old when we lost him following a severe anaphylactic reaction to peanuts in October 2013. But anaphylaxis is how Giovanni died. It is not who he was.
Giovanni was funny, loving, energetic, an honor student, a devoted friend and brother, and a talented athlete whose greatest love was baseball. He had a way of making friends wherever he went, and his life continues to be the heart behind everything we do.
I’m Georgina Cornago, Giovanni’s mom and the Founder and Executive Director of the Love for Giovanni Foundation. In the years since losing Giovanni, grief has taken me down a road I never could have imagined—one that eventually led to education, advocacy and a determination to help other families have the information I wish I had known.
Through the Love for Giovanni Foundation, our work focuses on food allergy and anaphylaxis education, increasing access to life-saving epinephrine, and advocating for meaningful change through initiatives including Gio’s Law and EPI FIRST, EPI EVERYWHERE™.
Why This Blog?
This blog is a little different from our Foundation website.
This is a place for the stories behind the work—the personal ones, the difficult ones, the lessons learned along the way, food allergy education and advocacy, grief and healing, hope, and most importantly, Giovanni.
Some posts will educate. Some will advocate. Some may simply tell a story that I feel needs to be told.
My hope is that by sharing what I’ve learned—and sometimes what I wish I had known—we can help another family feel more informed, more prepared and less alone.
For information about our programs, education, training, advocacy and ways to support our work, please visit the Love for Giovanni Foundation at LoveforGiovanni.org.
For Giovanni. Always. ❤️
EPI FIRST, EPI EVERYWHERE™ — A LOVE FOR GIOVANNI FOUNDATION | GIO’S LAW INITIATIVE
