Emma Corsini is a young woman who can be defined by her curiosity and an eagerness to learn something new every day. To comprehend Emma, one needs to understand how she sees life: everything is horizontally connected and full of intertwined nuances. Much like her favorite character of the Italian cartoon W.i.t.c.h. from when she was a kid, Cornelia, she is independent, pragmatic, and quick-witted. She is only 25, yet she has already lived in five different cities, conducting five different lives. Emma comes from Florence, but she has a multicultural soul: “A solid 40% of me holds tight to my maternal Spanish roots”, she says. Her story is a journey across cities that shaped her: in Bologna she felt right at home, London matched her worldview, showing that ambition can – and should – go hand in hand with culture, while the fast-paced Milanese life was definitely “more complicated” to handle. Emma finds her true dimension in an environment where people, ideas, and cultures are at the center of the discourse. When a situation needs to change for the better, she does it. That is something that Emma certainly does not fear. When she didn’t like her job anymore, she took the leap and followed her dream to Rome. As she says to herself, “If something can be better than it is right now, I might as well change it; in the worst-case scenario, I can always go back.” In other words, it’s better to have remorse rather than regret.
With a Political Science background, Emma later specialized in Cultural Management and Communication; she has always been writing, from the school newspaper to London magazines, consistently rejecting fragmentation and looking for connections. She loves going through McKinsey’s reports on economic, technological and market trends, analyzing how different indicators and variables interact and communicate with one another. This is in fact the way in which she would like to write – or speak – professionally, translating all this into cultural journalism: “My goal is to be able to integrate economics, fashion, politics, art, and society as a single and interconnected organism.” Emma’s brilliant mind feels at peace when exploring the most disparate curiosities and varied interests. On her perfect day off, she grabs her irreplaceable latte and dives into her Substack reading; then she switches to a good book, or, if it is Friday, awaits her dear New Yorker newsletter. She would rather read again My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante than sit and binge-watch a tv show, and wouldn’t say no to a coffee with the author, if only to ask her what actually lies behind her enigmatic characters.
Emma’s inquisitiveness lives together with a playful, yet highly competitive, personality. “Challenging me at GeoGuessr is not recommended”; it’s definitely safer to take her to the American rapper Isaiah Rashad concert. Emma loves understanding people and their ideas, their ways of life, to ask questions, and more than anything to look for links lying hidden under the surface – and, as a true Capricorn, she surely won’t stop until she finds them. Between a talk show, a good debate, and her favorite authors’ interviews, Emma discovers unspoken correlations and searches for interacting and interdependent factors. With her sharpness and dynamic attitude, she expresses her facets through her wardrobe and her interests that she defines as “random”, but if you listen to her talk about them, among economics, arts, and politics, you will notice that they are all related to the art of needing to find out more.
Emma will follow her daily planner without fail, and this is what makes sure she will be a thoughtful class representative. Emma looks at the future hoping to uncover bright ways to bring closer what most people see as distant. She is like her favorite color, a good bright purple: naturally versatile, a bit mysterious, and always classy. And she doesn’t care if they say it is jinxed.
