grad­u­at­ed from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Lin­colnshire & Hum­ber­side Hull Cam­pus in 2003 and received her degree in Social Work. Dur­ing her time in Eng­land she worked in organ­i­sa­tions such as Cor­ner­house York­shire where she was involved in edu­cat­ing ado­les­cents on addic­tion pre­ven­tion and sex­u­al health, SureStart & Home­S­tart Hull where she was involved in sup­port­ing sin­gle par­ent fam­i­lies and in par­tic­u­lar abused dads car­ing for under­age chil­dren and Ravenswood North­ern Hull where she was involved in car­ing for men­tal­ly ill and dis­abled peo­ple and train­ing them in inde­pen­dent liv­ing. Since 2008 she has been the Sci­en­tif­ic Direc­tor of the Cen­tres for the Pre­ven­tion of Addic­tions and Pro­mo­tion of Psy­choso­cial Health SIRIOS (Munic­i­pal­i­ty of Thes­sa­loni­ki in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Okana). The pro­grammes of the Pre­ven­tion Cen­tres include train­ings for par­ents, teach­ers, ado­les­cents and chil­dren on pre­ven­tion issues (emo­tions, active lis­ten­ing, com­mu­ni­ca­tion, con­flict res­o­lu­tion and man­age­ment, bereave­ment, etc.) with the aim for adults to be pro­tec­tive cush­ions for their chil­dren and for chil­dren to be empow­ered to make healthy and informed choic­es for their lives. In 2020 she received her MSc in Crim­i­nal Law & Addic­tions from the Aris­to­tle Uni­ver­si­ty of Thes­sa­loni­ki. Her the­sis focused on the “Expe­ri­ence of pris­on­ers in the autonomous Treat­ment Com­mu­ni­ty KETHEA PROMITHEAS and the Day Care Com­mu­ni­ty of KETHEA EN DRAZEI”, empha­siz­ing the impor­tance of pro­vid­ing treat­ment instead of impris­on­ment for addict­ed drug users. Since 2020 she is a mem­ber of the Board of Direc­tors and Orga­niz­ing Offi­cer of ISSUP GREECE (Inter­na­tion­al Soci­ety of Pre­ven­tion & Treat­ment Pro­fes­sion­als — Greece Branch). From 1999 to 2012 she worked vol­un­tar­i­ly with peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties, both in struc­tures (ELEPAP, KEPEPEP, ESVE, etc.) and in sum­mer camp pro­grams. Since 2022 she has been work­ing in par­al­lel as a Social Work­er — Pro­tec­tion Offi­cer at the KDAP-mea “Action for Some­thing Else”. Since 2021 she has par­tic­i­pat­ed as a lec­tur­er in train­ing pro­grams for Judi­cial Offi­cers orga­nized by the Nation­al School of Mag­is­trates (ESDI). Since 2022 she is a lec­tur­er at the Nation­al School of Pub­lic Admin­is­tra­tion in the course on the inte­gra­tion of peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties at work and a mem­ber of the Obser­va­to­ry for Friend­ly Jus­tice for Chil­dren of the Min­istry of Jus­tice in coop­er­a­tion with the Uni­ver­si­ty of West Atti­ca. In recent years she has orga­nized and par­tic­i­pat­ed in many con­fer­ences. She speaks Eng­lish, French, Span­ish and can com­mu­ni­cate using sign lan­guage.