Kiersten is a born and raised New Yorker and a Rome resident as of 2004. At the age of 15 she lived in an Athabascan Indian village in Alaska where she ate moose meat ice cream and attended a potlatch. At 16 she lived in Arles, France for a semester where she learned what real coffee is. That summer she lived on the Carribean Island of Grenada where she worked in a batik factory and learned sign language to communicate with her deaf co-workers. She moved to Rome to work on the TV series “Rome” for HBO and delivered her daughter in 2007. She opened her store The Milk Bar in Rome in 2009, then in 2010 The Milk Bar opens in Milan,  in 2011 she launched The Milk Bar online followed in 2012 by The Milk Bar Turin. In 2014 she sold The Milk Bar Milan as franchise and another The Milk Bar franchise opened in Monteverdi in Rome in 2015. Then in 2018 after three years of “gestation” she took the evolution of all of these ventures and launched Bellies Abroad.
She has been speaking with mothers and professionals through her store The Milk Bar since 2009 and is happy to share her wisdom with you.