Francesca D’Alessandro Wadsworth is a senior at USC pursuing a degree in Cinema and Media Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts. She has travelled between schools at USC, beginning her academic career as a fine arts major and then moving into comparative literature before ultimately landing in film studies. Her love of all things storytelling brought her to cinema, but it also brought her here, to New Orleans.

She revels in a jaunty tune and delights in a decadent meal, and exists in a reality between hedonism and existentialism - both of which she looks forward to encountering in this supremely unique physical place and novelly literary mental space.