[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Carmen Panepinto Zayati was born in Vittoria, a town and comune in the province of Ragusa, Sicily, southern Italy.
[1] Panepinto Zayati was an electronics teacher at Istituto di Istruzione Superiore (ISIS) Carducci-Volta-Pacinotti in Piombino, Tuscany.
[1][8][2][9] Zavati was crowned Miss Universe Italy 2023 in a pageant held at the Lo Smeraldo in Canosa di Puglia on October 8.
It is an opportunity for girls and women to empower each other and serve as inspirational leaders and role models through their life’s missions,” Carmen posted on Instagram.
“Being an engineer, my mission is to advocate for the empowerment of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), where they are under-represented, and there is a lack of female role models.”[1][2] Zavati represented Italy with the national flag at The 72nd Miss Universe 2023 in El Salvador[7] at the pageant venue Adolfo Pineda National Gymnasium (Gimnasio Nacional Adolfo Pineda) on Saturday November 18, 2023 where the reigning Miss Universe 2022, R'Bonney Gabriel will crown her successor at the end of Grand Finale.