Ambassador
“What interests me most about the ARTEFFECT Ambassadors program is working with other creative minds interested in educating our youth. I am very excited to collaborate and network with other educators and artists in order to get insights on different strategies of teaching and art-making.”
Passion, resilience, and perseverance are the end result of the relationships Athanasia H. Kyriakakos builds with her students. She seeks to elevate and celebrate everyone’s creative voices, especially her beloved students at Mergenthaler Vocational High school. She is a global educator, renowned international artist, and public speaker. Her practices as an urban educator and social creative have been informed by her global competencies, which she developed while serving her three Fulbright awards with the state department: 2016 Fulbright Fellowship as an artist (Greece), 2017-18 Teachers for Global Classrooms (Colombia), 2019 Fulbright DAT. She has been to over 28 countries collaborating with educators and working with artists. She represented Greece in the 50th Venice Biennale; created artwork for the XXVIII Olympic Games in Athens and for her work as an artist she has received awards from the Deste and UNESCO Foundation amongst others. She was a 2018 National Teacher of the Year Nominee and the 2017 Maryland State Teacher of the Year.
