
Luca Scarcella(Italy)
Born in 1989, I’m based between Los Angeles and Turin. I’m a freelance investigative journalist, an author and a creative. I lead a team of machine learning engineers, data scientists, photographers, web developers, sound designers and other creatives, that collaborate with me to create cross-media journalism projects, documentaries, and podcasts.
Since 2013 I’ve also been working - as a communication consultant - with several brands and web agencies in Italy and UK (with clients like Salomon, The North Face, Google, Gordon’s), and I’m a member of the jury of Social Creative Awards, with Facebook, Gucci, Lamborghini and many more. Recently, I was recognized by Thrive Global (magazine founded and directed by Arianna Huffington) as “one of the most influential under 30 in the publishing field right now, capable to merge effectively new technologies, social media and journalism”. I was also a TEDx organizer and licensee, and in June 2018 I did my first TEDx talk: “ Investigative journalism based on music theory”. I’m a pianist, graduated at the Conservatory of Turin in 2011.
Now I’m studying journalism at UCLA in order to grow professionally.
I’m the author of “Childfood - Recipes for Young Coolinary Explorers”, a cookbook for children in which I involved 23 top chefs and as many illustrators, from all over the world, and in 30 days I raised more than $ 61 thousand USD to fund it on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter.