Violet Tsagkas

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Violet Tsagkas serves as Editor of Fem2.0 and is a Project Coordinator at Turner Strategies. She previously studied Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Athens in Greece and obtained her Masters Degree from the Graduate School of Political Management, George Washington University. She completed her first internship in D.C. at the office of Gus Bilirakis (FL-9). Prior to moving from Greece she was working at Spin Political & Corporate Communications in Athens. Violet tweets from @Violet_T.

Recent blog posts written by Violet Tsagkas

Abortion Providers in Virginia Need Our Support

I met Rosemary W. Codding, the Director of Patient Services at the Falls Church Health Center in Virginia, a couple of months ago. Since the first moment I spoke to her, I felt that she was the kind of person that could be my mentor. Rosemary has committed her time to providing safe and personalized [...]

Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus

Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus by Deborah Juang Stein is a must read memoir by a woman who was born in prison and spent the first year of her life behind bars. “Can you please alter Deborah’s birth certificate,” my mother asks in the letter to the family attorney, “from the Federal Women’s Prison in [...]

How Women Are Doing in Greece

 “Of all creatures who live and have intelligence, we women are most miserable. …People say that women lead a life without danger inside our homes, while men fight in war; but they are wrong. I would rather serve three times in battle than give birth once.” Medea’s complaint, Athens, Greece, 431 BC (Euripedes, Medea 230-51.G) [...]