“I have always been awed by their courage, strength and grace under fire,” she says. Stefanie’s dream turned out to be politics, which she learned at the home of another seminal influence, her godfather. “From congressional internships starting at the age of 15 to serving as high school student body president, I have always had the drive and desire to participate actively in my community.”

She went on to work for Senator Dianne Feinstein, Phil Angelides and eventually form her own political and philanthropic fundraising firm and is making a big difference in the greater community.

Light is the main attribute of the New Acropolis Museum which is scheduled to open this month in Greece to house the entire collection of surviving antiquities from the Acropolis. Light pours from the glass-floored atrium of the Parthenon Galley, light enters the archaeological excavation and the light of hope is what kept the dream alive that this museum would actually be built over the three decades that it took to make it a reality.

And it’s a wonderful reality: architect Bernard Tschumi says “if architecture can be described as the materialization of concepts, this building is about the clarity of an exhibition route expressed through three materials, marble, concrete and glass.”

In this issue, we also highlight the conventions of AHEPA in San Francisco and PSEKA’S 25th Annual Cyprus Conference in DC and the many faces that made it notable. Enjoy.

George Lois was a pioneer in the world of advertising, the bad boy of the industry who shook it up and whose innovations are still daring decades later. He helped create the iconoclasm of the 60s and his style is a signature style of the era. He hasn’t slowed down in the decades since and is still as outspoken.

Finally, Nia Vardalos is back with her new movie based in Greece and taking full advantage of Greece’s ancient and modern glory. It’s a comedy (naturally) and Vardalos in it is Vardalos, once again: funny and charming and bound to fall in love.

Dimitri C. Michalakis