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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.

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Laurels for our Hellenists!

By Athanasia Biska | 07/09/2025

La Gazeta, Volume 6, Issue 1, page 3, Adelphi University GAZETTE-ADELPHI UNIVERSITY Professor Biska, our professor of Greek, reports that the Hellenic Society won the “Educational Event of the Year” award for their event “A Taste of Greece” at Adelphi’s Brown & Gold banquet! “At this event,” she notes, “students presented videos and photographs from…

A Taste of Greece at Adelphi University

By Athanasia Biska | 07/09/2025

30.04.2010, en.sae.gr The Greek Society of Adelphi University offered a taste of Greece to American students and professors at the University Centre of the institution in Garden city, last Tuesday. In a hall full of students and parents, the members of the Greek Society presented videos and photographs from Greece, showing Greece’s contribution to the…

Ecumenical Hellenic values remembered at the Capitol

By Athanasia Biska | 07/09/2025

Washington, D.C.,  By Catherine Tsounis, Greek News “Today, we honor Ambassador Alexandros Mallias, a man who has created history in Washington, D.C.,” stated Mrs. Stella Kokolis, President of the Federation of Hellenic American Educators, SAE – USA Region. “He is responsible for creating the education events at the Capitol in 2008 and 2009. Without his support,…

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Hellenic Values Day on Capitol Hill

By Athanasia Biska | 07/09/2025

Published in NEO magazine The Federation of Hellenic American Educators under the auspices of SAE-USA (World Council For Hellenes Abroad) Region and the Greek Embassy in Washington, D.C. presented the 2nd annual event on “The Ecumenical, Humanistic and Diachronic Values of the Greek Culture and Education” on Thursday morning, June 4th at the Cannon Building of the Capitol, Washington, D.C. Nancy Biska, representing…