Born in Urbana-Champaign (Illinois), from Italian parents who were conducting research as graduate students in the USA, I spent the first two years of my life travelling across the USA and Caribbean islands with my family. When we moved across the pond, and relocated from Illinois to Switzerland, I started to socialize with German-speaking children, in a kindergarten in Zurich. I don’t recall any English or German from those times, but being exposed to such a rich and varied cultural and linguistic environment has definitely paved the path to my research interests in creativity and multilingualism.