Nagia Daskalopoulou holds two Masters of Arts, one in Translation (2016) and one in Conference Interpreting (2017) at Hellenic American University. She has been working as a freelance translator and conference interpreter in Greek and English, mainly on EU programs, legal translation, literary translation and conference interpreting (e.g. UNHCR, EU GRAGE Project, ΕU TRITON Project, Greek Ministries, Government Gazettes of Greece). She is the translator of the award-winning novel “Unsheltered” (2020), written by Barbara Kingsolver, an American novelist and poet. Since 1998, she has been teaching English as a foreign language to Greek young learners and adults at the Foreign Language School she owns and runs, being the Director of Studies. She holds a Diploma in TESOL-Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages, Hellenic American University, Centre of Applied Linguistics and Language Studies (2008).

She also holds a Bachelor’s degree in teaching the Greek language (National and Kapodistrian University, 1997). She is a member of the Panhellenic Association of Language School Owners-Teachers, a member of the Exams Guidelines Committee of the aforementioned association and a member of the Professional Chamber of Athens. Ms Daskalopoulou is an adjunct faculty member and teaches in the MAT program.

Henry Walters, a poet and teacher, was born in Chicago in 1984 and grew up in Clinton, Michigan. After graduating from Harvard University with a degree in Latin and Greek, he lived as a falconer’s apprentice in Ireland and a beekeeper’s assistant in Sicily before returning to the United States, where he has worked as a seasonal biologist, postal carrier, census-taker, gardener, carpenter, baseball coach, actor, teacher, playwright, and birding guide. His first book, Field Guide A Tempo, was a finalist for the 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A second collection of poems will be published by The Waywiser Press in 2022. He is also the translator, from Italian, of Enrico Testa's prize-winning collection Ablativo. He lives in New Hampshire with his young family, a hive of bees, and a hawk. He is an adjunct faculty member at Hellenic American University, where he teaches in the Nashua MBA program.

Iris Vasileiadou is a Doctoral candidate at Hellenic American University, where she also earned her MA in Applied Linguistics magna cum laude. Her research interests include intercultural communication and political and media discourse, as well as gender in communities of practice. Iris has worked as an EFL/ESL teacher in Greece and the U.K. at various language schools and since 2014, she has been working at Hellenic American Union as an EFL instructor in its English Language Program. She is a certified Cambridge and Michigan examiner for B2 and C2 CEFR levels. Iris has been involved in various projects for the Center for Applied Linguistics and Language Studies, such as material development for writing/speaking seminars for ESL learners, special courses on extensive reading for ESL learners, and teacher training seminars of how to use different technological tools. She has also developed testing items for the STYLE exam, and has trained oral and written examiners for Hellenic American University’s STYLE and ABLE exams. She is currently an adjunct faculty member teaching in the M.A. in Applied Linguistics program.

Jenny Zimianitou holds a Diploma in Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language from Saint Michael's College, Vermont, USA, and a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics from Hellenic American University, New Hampshire, USA. She has been involved in English language teaching for over 15 years both as a teacher and teacher educator. She has been involved in writing and editing projects and has given presentations and written articles on issues related to English language teaching. Ms. Zimianitou has also attended a number of seminars and conferences in Greece and abroad and has served on the TESOL Greece Board as vice chairperson.