Katia Tarasconi (born 5 October 1973) is an Italian politician, Mayor of Piacenza since 2022.

Tarasconi graduated in 1998 with a degree in graphic arts from University of Miami where she worked for two years for the editorial art department of the Miami Herald.

On the occasion of the 2022 local elections, she announced her candidacy for the office of Mayor of Piacenza as official candidate of the centre-left coalition (Democratic Party, Azione and four civic lists).

[5] She left her seat in the Regional council on 28 June - according to the Italian law, the office of Mayor is not compatible with membership of the National Parliament or Regional Council - and she officially took office as new Mayor of Piacenza on 29 June.

[6] Divorced, already married to an American citizen, she had two children: in September 2021, she lost her 18-year-old son Kristopher Dixon, involved in a car accident in Rome.