PhD Candidate - Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society, USI - Università della Svizzera italiana
Mirjam-Sarah (Mia) Lepp is a Ph.D. candidate in Digital Fashion Communication at the Institute of Digital Technologies for Communication at the Università della Svizzera italiana USI in Lugano (Switzerland). Her proposed topic is to research about the creation of a fashion literacy eLearning platform. Her supervisors are Professor Lorenzo Cantoni and Dr. Nadzeya Sabatini. Before beginning her Ph.D. studies, she worked in digital communication, specifically social media, for 7 years, working for global brands in the US and Europe, such as BCBGMAXAZRIA, Adidas, and Fabletics. She is originally from Estonia but spent time growing up in the US, where she completed her bachelor’s degree in media communication studies and marketing from Florida State University. Afterward, she got her Master’s degree in Digital Fashion Communication from USI + Sorbonne Paris 1.