Valentina Petrini is a journalist and presenter of the italian program Nemo.

Valentina is interested in social and political problems such as Immigration and Mafia.

Valentina attended Galileo Ferraris scientific high school ^[3] in Taranto.

In 2005 she graduated in Sociology at University of Rome La Sapienza with a thesis on counteracting clandestine immigration, in particular on italian and european laws that rule CIE (Identification and Expulsion Centres). ^[1]

At nineteen years old she started to collaborate with a local radio in Taranto called "Primaveraradio".

She did Internship s for the roman press agency Adnkronos and for a lot of newspapers, such as Il Centro of Pescara by the Repubblica-Espresso group and L'Unità for three years. She also did inquiries for Repubblica and Corriere inserts.

In 2007 she was the assistant of the italian ONU ambassador Staffan de Mistura who had to draw up a report about the conditions of the fourteen immigration centres situated in Italy. She could continue her political career, but she really wanted to be a journalist so in 2008 she continued making inquiries forMalpelo, a TV program on La7 channel. Then she became correspondent for the political and debates TV programsPiazza PulitaandExit. She also did a lot of inquires around Italy in the TV program "I cacciatori" on Nove channel with Pablo Trincia.

Currently she is conducting the TV programNemo - Nessuno escluso onRAI **with the journalist Enrico Lucci. ^[1]

Valentina started her inquiries career with the Ilva industry controversy.

She was able to discover a lot of mysteries and creepy facts about the Taranto seat, for example the excess of pollution that came from it.

Afterwards Emilio Riva, Luigi Capogrosso and Angelo Cavallo, the three directors of Ilva, were accused of food poisoning, cautious omission of job accidents and air pollution.

She also inquired about the Gioia Tauro port in south Italy, which the criminal oganization Ndrangheta used for international drug trafficking.

She was finlist of the Ilaria Alpi Prize 2011 with "The machine of consent", an inquiry on the plots between Ndrangheta and health in Calabria.

She won the International Journalism Prize DIG Awards 2016 with the article "Travelling with the refugees".

She has been contributing with the organization of the First of May Concert in Taranto since 2013.