Corinna Krome completed her PhD in Internatioal Relations at the Freie Universität Berlin about "The (In-) Securitization of Forced Migration in ASEAN – Life in the Shadows".

She studied ethnology and political sciences at the Albert-Ludwigs Universität in Freiburg and got her master's degree in International Relations at the Freien Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität und der Universität Potsdam.

She is the founder of "mosaique e.V.- Das Haus der Kulturen" and is involved in SOS MEDITERANEE.