She moved from Florence to New York City at age nineteen to work for her uncle, the fashion designer Emilio Pucci, at his boutique within the luxury department store Saks Fifth Avenue.
[5] She went on to complete a book, The Epic of Life: A Balinese Journey of the Soul, about the ceiling paintings of the Kertha Gosa, the court of justice at the former royal Klungkung Palace, Bali, Indonesia.
[6] Her next book, The Trials of Maria Barbella, released in 1996, chronicles the story of a young Italian immigrant who in 1895 was sentenced by the State of New York to be the first woman executed in the newly invented electric chair.
[13][14][15][16] Pucci and Ward also produced a narrative feature by Sharon Greytak that premiered in 2012, Archaeology of a Woman, which stars Sally Kirkland and Victoria Clark and won a Golden Remi award at WorldFest Houston that year.
[17] Their next project was the documentary short Talk Radio Tehran, which follows three high-spirited women who fulfill their aspirations in spite of the gender apartheid system that dominates daily life in Iran.