Yolanda “Linda” Reid Chassiakos is a graduate of the Georgetown University School of Medicine and completed her residency in Pediatrics at Georgetown. In addition to her 20+ years of service as the Executive Director and CMO of the CSUN Klotz Student Health Center, Dr. Reid served as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics for UCLA for over three decades. She was a Project Director in the ODPHP of DHHS in DC, and broadcast as a medical editor, host, and feature reporter for CBS in DC and for Lifetime Medical Television in Los Angeles.
She has written articles and columns for the Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, Los Angeles Times, Tribune International, LA Daily News, and HuffPost. Dr. Reid is a member of SAG/AFTRA, and the Writers Guild of America West. She has also served as a District Liaison Volunteer for the AARP and looks forward to advocating for the health and safety of Hellenes in the Mediterranean and the Diaspora worldwide.
Dr. Alexandros Kyriakidis is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts (Department of Political Science and International Relations and Basil P. Caloyeras Center for Modern Greek Studies) of Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles, CA). He has a PhD in International and European Studies from the University of Macedonia (Greece), obtained with honors under a scholarship from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation, an MPhil in Politics from the University of Sheffield (UK), an MSc in Global Politics from the University of Southampton (UK), and a BA in Political Science from the College of Wooster (OH). He has served as an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Political Sciences of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) and at the Department of International and European Studies of the University of Macedonia (Greece), as a Lecturer at the European Law and Governance School of the European Public Law Organization (E.P.L.O.), as a Postdoctoral Researcher at LUISS University (Rome) and the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), as a Visiting Researcher at Rhodes College (TN, U.S.A.), and as a Researcher in multiple E.U. and University of Macedonia-funded research projects.
