William Fleming

I would say my most precious possession is my passport – I live abroad so without it there’d be a problem.  It’s also my gateway home. Earlier this year, I applied for a transfer to the New York office, which again, I couldn’t do without my passport. I’ve been here one month now, and I…

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Roxana Dobrota

The most important piece of advice I’ve ever received was from my grandfather – he told me just to be myself, regardless of what anyone else says. We were under a communist regime in Romania in the ’80s, so that kind of rhetoric was pretty bold. Nonetheless, he kept telling me that whatever issues you…

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Lara Rodriguez

I am from a small town near Bilbao in the Basque Country. At university I won an Erasmus grant to go and  study in Italy for a year – it was my first time away from my parents. I moved to Florence completely alone,  without knowing any Italian and it changed my life. I didn’t…

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Carolina Morales

Music is essential to me. Every day I wake up listening to music, and it’s the last thing I do at night. It’s a way to express myself and channel my energy – it’s an organic expression of how I feel. When I was growing up, two or three of my friend at school loved…

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Sophie Morel

I think I was born to be on the move. I love speaking with different people from different ethnic backgrounds and discovering a new way of life or learning a new language. That’s just something I’ve got in my DNA. I moved around a lot when I was a child, every four or five years.

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