A Commitment to Community
Learn more about Athanasia Biska's dedication to cultural outreach. This section highlights her impactful cultural outreach events and significant academic community work within the community.
FROM THE NEWSROOM TO THE CLASSROOM: PROFESSOR ATHANASIA BISKA’S MISSION TO SHARE GREEK CULTURE
BY Chala Civan & William Conboy The Delphian Student Newspaper FEATURES April 28, 2025 • 7 Professor Biska’s dedication to embracing language, journalism and Greek culture helps inspire students to dive deeper into cultural exchanges and connections. In the mid-1990s, while Professor Athanasia Biska was working as a journalist for Greece’s leading TV station Antenna,…
Rain Didn’t Rain on the NY Greeks’ Parade!
With Businessman George Tsounis and Helen Psaras – Photo: Dimitrios Panagos By Constantine S. Sirigos, TNH Staff Writer, The National Herald, April 5-11, 2014 MANHATTAN – When the clouds hovering above Manhattan saw the Greeks marching up Fifth Avenue were undaunted by the early drizzle, they relented, making for a chilly but dry celebration of the 193rd anniversary of Greek Independence. The weather was not…
Community Associations Pancretans Celebrate “Enosis”
The National Herald FLUSHING – The Spirit of Liberty, Hellenism, and the great Greek Island of Crete, spiced by the humor of renowned Greek-American writer Harry Mark Petrakis who was honored along with Greek parliamentarian and former foreign minister and mayor of Athens, Dora Bakoyiannis, filled the penthouse ballroom of the Terrace on the Park…
The Pancretan Association of America Celebrates the Centennial Anniversary of the Union of Crete with Greece
By Nancy Biska & Georgia Kokinidou, ΚΡΗΤΗ Magazine, October 2013 Celebrations with a series of cultural events in New York City on December 5 – 8, 2013 are being organized by the Pancretan Association of America and the Cultural & Education Committee of the NY and NJ local chapters, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of…