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The Team
Τάσος Σμετόπουλος

Tassos Smetopoulos

Founder / Streeter / Coordinator
Tassos was born and raised in Athens. With twenty years of experience in addictions, he has participated in the first Training for the Trainers of the International Network of Social Streetwork “Dynamo” (Lisbon, 2013).
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Τάσος Σμετόπουλος

Tassos Smetopoulos

Founder / Streeter / Coordinator

Tassos was born and raised in Athens. With twenty years of experience in addictions, he has participated in the first Training for the Trainers of the International Network of Social Streetwork “Dynamo” (Lisbon, 2013).
He is the inspirer and creator of nine social programs, as an Outreach Worker he has completed almost 4,500 hours in Streetwork and has conducted fifteen training workshops. Finally, he has traveled to Europe (UK – London, Newcastle, Southampton) to meet related organizations and social programs.
Ρεγγίνα Κούκου

Regina Koukou

Streeter
Regina was born in Athens. She studied Graphic Arts in Vakalo and Silkscreen Printing in London. She maintained a Silkscreen printing workshop in the 1990s, and at the same time participated in various photography exhibitions with complex techniques. Later on she was involved in Real Estate.
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Ρεγγίνα Κούκου

Regina Koukou

Streeter

Regina was born in Athens. She studied Graphic Arts in Vakalo and Silkscreen Printing in London. She maintained a Silkscreen printing workshop in the 1990s, and at the same time participated in various photography exhibitions with complex techniques. Later on she was involved in Real Estate.

Shas a great love for animals, travel, music and photography. She started to participate voluntarily in the Bridge in 2015. Today he is a member of Steps and actively participates in the actions of One Stop and also in the team of Street Embrace.

Τατιανή Μπούρδη

Tatiani Bourdi

Co-founder / Streeter / Coordinator of street actions
Tatiani was born in Athens and grew up in Loutraki. She studied Sociology at Deree American College. She has been participating in Steps activities since 2017. She loves cats, tattoos and loves to isolate herself with her music. She loves poetry and literature.
Ζωή Πετροπούλου

Zoe Petropoulou

Psychologist / Streeter / Coordinator in the Escorts-Mediation program
Zoe grew up in Volos. She studied Psychology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and then came to Athens, where she graduated from the postgraduate program "Criminal Law and Dependencies". She started participating in Steps activities in 2019. She likes music scenes, travel, relaxing moments with friends.
Χριστίνα Ψυρρή

Christina Psyrri

Social Worker / Streeter
Christina was born and raised in Athens. She studied Social Work at the University of West Attica with postgraduate studies in addictions at the Department of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has been participating in Steps activities since April 2020. She loves dancing and traveling, while she is particularly interested in learning foreign languages.

SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATES

Βασιλεία Διγιδίκη

Vasileia Digidiki

Vasileia Digidiki is a social and forensic psychologist and a Harvard University Instructor. She earned her PhD in social psychology from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and holds two master’s degrees, one in forensic psychology and one in social psychology.
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Βασιλεία Διγιδίκη

Vasileia Digidiki

Vasileia Digidiki is a social and forensic psychologist and a Harvard University Instructor. She earned her PhD in social psychology from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and holds two master’s degrees, one in forensic psychology and one in social psychology. Digidiki completed her post-doc on child protection challenges in humanitarian crises at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

She currently leads the Center’s research on refugee and migrant child protection in the Mediterranean Basin, with a special focus on the sexual exploitation of refugee and migrant children. She has worked extensively on sex trafficking, victim and client blaming and its impact on re-victimization, and social attitudes towards the phenomenon. In collaboration with Fletcher School, in Tufts University, she also conducts research on religion identity and its impact on social integration.

 
Πέννυ Τραυλού

Penny Travlou

Penny Travlou is a Lecturer in Cultural Geography and Theory in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA), University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research focuses on the politics of public space, collaborative practices, spatial and social justice and ethnography.
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Πέννυ Τραυλού

Penny Travlou

Penny Travlou is a Lecturer in Cultural Geography and Theory in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA), University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research focuses on the politics of public space, collaborative practices, spatial and social justice and ethnography. She has been involved in international research projects funded by the European Union and UK Research Councils.

She has presented her research in numerous academic conferences and non-academic events as well published extensively in international peer-reviewed journals. Alongside her academic work, Penny is an activist on urban commons and spatial justice and has been done work with/for refugees in Athens for the last 3 years. She has been an active member of the OneLoveKitchen, an African migrants’ collective pop-up kitchen and the co-founder of the Options FoodLab (options.limited), a food-related social enterprise and community for refugees’ integration in Athens.

Βασιλική Σ. Γαροπούλου

Vasiliki S. Garopoulou

Vasiliki S. Garopoulou is a Professor of Special-Adapted Physical Education & Sport Science and a Scientific Counselor of Neurorehabilitation and Medical Exercise. She holds two Postgraduate Diplomas on “Multiple Sclerosis” from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th) with scholarships for her excellent performance.
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Βασιλική Σ. Γαροπούλου

Vasiliki S. Garopoulou

Vasiliki S. Garopoulou is a Professor of Special-Adapted Physical Education & Sport Science and a Scientific Counselor of Neurorehabilitation and Medical Exercise. She holds two Postgraduate Diplomas on “Multiple Sclerosis” from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th)  with scholarships for her excellent performance.

She has also been awarded a doctoral degree with full scholarship in the Laboratory of Developmental Medicine and Special Needs Education in collaboration with the 2ndNeurology Dept. of AHEPA University General Hospital of the A.U.Th Medical School. She completed her first post-doctoral degree at the A.U.Th Medical School in the field of Neurosciences and is currently working on her second post-doctoral research as a full scholarship researcher with the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) and P.D. thesis: Neurorehabilitation & Therapeutic Exercise in Multiple Sclerosis. Finally, she has been an active board member and ambassador of GMSS to the European Multiple Sclerosis Platform (EMSP) since 2005 in matters of rehabilitation.